"Jumping twenty or so years later, Ann Ciccolella, artistic director of Austin Shakespeare, approached me with the idea of staging Anthem. She had heard my film score to Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life. And she said, I want to do Anthem as an oratorio. Well, I figured what she meant was a straight play with music."

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Source : Source: www.theobjectivestandard.com

Jeff Britting

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“Prayer is like practicing the piano or ballet or writing: you have to bring your body for a very long time, in spite of your bodyâ€™s frailties and conflicts and general revolt, and then one day your body is not separate any more. Youâ€™ve in a sense become the piano or the dance or the word or the prayer. The prayer is in your heart. The prayer is your heart.”

Source : Heather King (2015). “Stripped: At the Intersection of Cancer, Culture, and Christ”, p.38, Loyola Press
“I think love is something you figure out later on in life, and you have to make a lot of mistakes to figure out what love is, which is why we all have shitty, tumultuous relationships when weâ€™re younger, and itâ€™s harder to let go,”
“When I first moved to L.A. as a dancer, all I wanted to do was dance. I never even considered trying to act or direct.”

Source : "Dirty Dancing: The Secrets Behind Its Sexy TV Makeover". Interview with Angel Cohn, www.tvguide.com. December 6, 2006.
“I dont want to sound gloomy, but, at some point of your lives, every one of you will notice that you have in your life one person, one friend whom you love and care for very much. That person is so close to you that you are able to share some things only with him. For example, you can call that friend, and from the very first maniacal laugh or some other joke you will know who is at the other end of that line. We used to do that with him so often. And then when that person is gone, there will be nothing like that in your life ever again.”
“As I was going up the stair I met a man who wan't there He wasn't there again today Oh I wish he'd go away!”
“Every writer has something to say, but those writers whose works endure have dared to say something about the things that frighten them, confuse them, challenge them, and occasionally delight them.”
“I honestly turned to writing because I didn't know what else to do, and because a friend had gently suggested it.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Everybody has a â€˜gripping strangerâ€™ in their lives, Andy, a stranger who unwittingly possesses a bizarre hold over you. Maybe itâ€™s the kid in cut-offs who mows your lawn or the woman wearing White Shoulders who stamps your book at the libraryâ€”a stranger who, if you were to come home and find a message from them on your answering machine saying â€˜Drop everything. I love you. Come away with me now to Florida,â€™ youâ€™d follow them.”

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