"Why am I afraid to dance, I who love music and rhythm and grace and song and laughter? Why am I afraid to live, I who love life and the beauty of flesh and the living colors of the earth and sky and sea? Why am I afraid to love, I who love love?"

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Source : Travis Bogard, Eugene O'Neill (1988). “Contour in Time: The Plays of Eugene O'Neill”, p.271, Oxford University Press on Demand

Eugene O'Neill

#Song Quotes #Laughter Quotes #Love Life Quotes

“Books dont need batteries”
“Every time I make a record, it's a gem with different facets, and every time I like to explore a different side. The core is the same, it never changes, but I try to create a different shape.”
“What's the point of living if you don't belong anywhere?”
“At the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theatre, Sanford Meisner said, 'When you go into the professional world, at a stock theatre somewhere, backstage, you will meet an older actor, someone who has been around awhile. He will tell you tales and anecdotes, about life in the theatre. He will speak to you about your performance and the performances of others, and he will generalize to you, based on his experience and his intuitions, about the laws of the stage. Ignore this man!'”
“We are all a people in need. We are not perfect. We are not machines. We make mistakes. We need grace. We need compassion. We need help at times. We need other people. And that's okay.”

Source : Jamie Tworkowski (2015). “If You Feel Too Much: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For”, p.84, Penguin
“When we invoke the soul we move from the realm of information to the more vital realm of wisdom, the attainment of which is the only true value of learning.”
“No word is capable of carrying the impulses one wants to send with it”

Source : "Lettrisme: into the present" by University of Iowa. Museum of Art, Mandeville Art Gallery, (p. 71), 1983.
“The day of parts of the country hating each other, or rivalries like that... I feel like that's dead.”

Source : "Fred Armisen On SNL’s ‘The Californians’ Sketch: ‘I’m So Glad Cities Have Personalities’" by Anna Almendrala, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 19,2012.

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