"There was a producer from the Aspen Comedy Festival who happened to be there, as a friend of a friend, and she said, "I'd like to book you into the Aspen Comedy Festival," and we said, "Well, there isn't really a show to book in, this is just a little showcase and it's really our workshop." And she said, "No, it's great, I love it, just do exactly what you did.""

-- Brian Henson

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“Courage becomes a worthwhile and meaningful virtue when it is regarded not so much as a willingness to die manfully but as a determination to live decently.”
“I can do as much work as any man ... We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much. What we want is a little money. You men know that you get as much again as women when you write, or for what you do. When we get our rights, we shall not have to come to you for money, for then we shall have money enough of our own.”
“If there isn't a sequence of 15 previous passes, a good transition between attack and defence is impossible. Impossible.”
“It never hurts your eyesight to look on the bright side of things.”

Source : Barbara Johnson (1996). “The Joy Journal”, Thomas Nelson
“Thought engenders thought. Place one idea on paper, another will follow it, and still another, until you have written a page; you cannot fathom your mind. There is a well of thought which has no bottom; the more you draw from it, the more clear and fruitful it will be.”
“If I'm wearing a flower dress, why do I have to wear underwear?”
“It's important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.”

Source : "Carlos Slim: The Richest Man You've Never Heard Of". abcnews.go.com. October 8, 2007.
“Do not take up music unless you would rather die than not do so.”

Source : Advice to her pupils. Quoted in Alan Kendall The Tender Tyrant: Nadia Boulanger (1976).

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