"Fiction. . . . It's like goading a mongoose and a cobra into battle and staying with them to see who wins."

-- Shauna Singh Baldwin

#Winning Quotes #Battle Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“A lot of people try to paint this child actor stigma, but I always looked at it as a great opportunity.”

Source : "Where Are They Now? 'Home Improvement' star Zachery Ty Bryan turned his back on spotlight" by Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. June 21, 2012.
“Hope is born of participation in hopeful solutions.”
“...ultimately it come down to, are you making or are you destroying? If you try very hard to create ways of living, create dreams of what is possible, then you win. If you don't, you may make a fortune in ten years, but you're not going to be read in twenty years, and that's that.”

Source : John Gardner, Allan Richard Chavkin (1990). “Conversations with John Gardner”, p.168, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“Could it be that first love was the only true love? And that after those first fires had been doused or burned out, men and women chose whom they would love based on worldly needs, and then reenacted the rituals and feelings of that first pure experience - nursed the flames that once burned of their own accord”
“I had just come off of doing a play in Los Angeles which actually got me the role. It was called Bent and it was at the Mark Taper Forum. I was playing a homosexual in 1930 to 1934 Berlin who is eventually put into a concentration camp for the second half of the play. I had lost about 38 pounds for that.”
“'Now I've tasted chocolate I'm not going back'. That's a great line. That's not me, that's all the writing. I mean it's like it doesn't matter who plays it, it's a great role. It's such a funny, tongue in cheek kind of great role.”
“There's a small movement of teacher-led schools across the country. These are schools that don't have a traditional principal, teachers come together and actually run the school themselves. That's kind of the most radical way, but I think something that's more doable across the board is just creating career ladders for teachers that allow certain teachers after a certain number of years to inhabit new roles. Roles mentoring their peers, helping train novice teachers to be better at their jobs, roles writing the curriculum, leading on lesson planning.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I think old people are scary. They remind you of your own death. People don't like to tell you that.”

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