"If the playwright knew every little thing about his play, why bother? There must be discovery all the time, otherwise why bother to do it?"

-- Phylicia Rashad

#Play Quotes #Discovery Quotes #Littles Quotes

“God speaks silently, God speaks in your heart; if your heart is noisy, chattering, you will not hear.”

Source : Caryll Houselander, Thomas Hoffman (2000). “A Child in Winter: Advent, Christmas and Epiphany with Caryll Houselander”, p.38, Rowman & Littlefield
“In life learn art, in the artwork learn life. If you see the one correctly you see the other also.”
“Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.”
“Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.”

Source : Samuel Johnson (1787). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with His Life, and Notes on His Lives of the Poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In Eleven Volumes ...”, p.211
“Everybody can write a beginning and an ending, but to actually define that middle point where everything will go from professional to person, where everything will change, is always the hardest part, because it can very easily be too constructed, too artificial.”
“I went to Tokyo three years ago. It was a job, though. I did an ad campaign for IBM, so they flew me out there to take pictures of me. It was IBM Global. It went to Australia, France, London, all over the world. But I think the ad campaign was a failure, because of me.”
“So rapid is the flight of dreams upon the wings of imagination.”
“The crowd is made of little gods, and there is still no heaven.”

Source : Rae Armantrout (2016). “Partly: New and Selected Poems, 2001–2015”, p.79, Wesleyan University Press

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