"We sit here, very different each from the other, until the passion arrives to give us our equality, to make us part of the play, to make the play part of us."

-- Muriel Rukeyser

#Passion Quotes #Play Quotes #Giving Quotes

“The bravest man feels an anxiety 'circa praecordia' as he enters the battle; but he dreads disgrace yet more.”

Source : Attributed to Locker's Greenwich Gallery article "Torrington" in Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan "The Life of Nelson, Volume 2: The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain" (p. 52), 1897.
“Marry yourself first -- promise never to leave you!”
“Praise lies upon a higher plain than thanksgiving. When I give thanks, my thoughts still circle around myself to some extent. But in praise my soul ascends to self-forgetting adoration, seeing and praising only the majesty and power of God, His grace and redemption”
“Acting can be a great job, but you do have to make up things to do when you're not working.”
“I have an acting coach that I work with on everything that I do. The thing about my preparation process for getting ready for a role is I have sex with as many people as I can.”
“People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.”
“I have such a strong belief in women's ability to sustain each other.”
“I can be by myself because I'm never lonely, I'm simply alone, living in my heavily populated solitude, a harum-scarum of infinity and eternity, and Infinity and Eternity seem to take a liking to the likes of me.”

Source : Bohumil Hrabal (1992). “Too Loud a Solitude”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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