"A tribulation gives you the opportunity to test a truth you have always believed."

-- Jack Hyles

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“I've always gotten a positive reaction to doing African-American characters.”
“Simply adored Timothy Schaffert's The Coffins of Little Hope: the voice of Essie, the narrator, is terrific & the last line blew me away.”
“The work is the most fun; it seems illicit how much fun it is.”
“We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.”
“But happiness is not always loud and bright and crowded. Happiness ripens like a watermelon, sweet and rosy on the inside with only a thin top layer altogether free of small black pits. And, like a watermelon, the whole thing can be covered with a plain dark rind.”
“History has a way of coming back to you. In the case of Janis Joplin appearing at the festival in 1968, her performance affected the life of a Bostonian who is now a member of the Newport Festivals Foundation Board of Directors. Â Ward Mooney was so affected and emotionally involved in Janisâ€™ performance at Newport, that when he heard the festival was going nonprofit, he knew wanted to become a part.Â Janis was beautiful, gracious and respectful, and the power of her Newport performance continues to live on.”
“He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence.”
“I was naÃ¯ve when I was young, I was sheltered. I had illusions about who I was going to be, delusions, and a little bit of pretentiousness. And I thought, "I'll write the guy like that. It'll allow me to make fun of everyone else if I make fun of myself."”

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