"Walter C. Wright has a more cogent presentation than my father did about [gravity] being a push. But he had the same basic belief, that the idea of magnetism attracting something was not the reason why the effects of what we call gravity occur."

-- Paul Laffoley

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“When we think about our work it deals with our motivations, our desires, our sense of security, purpose, and status. Our work deals with a whole host of relationships. Work impacts the flourishing of individuals, communities, and nations.”
“I wish most anxiously to see my much loved America - it is the Country from whence all reformations must originally spring - I despair of seeing an Abolition of the infernal trafic in Negroes - we must push that matter further on your side the water - I wish that a few well instructed Negroes could be sent among their Brethren in Bondage, for until they are enabled to take their own part nothing will be done.”
“I'm 74 but I feel like I'm 35. And it isn't work. You know what it is? It's fun, absolute fun. I don't know many people who are fortunate enough to be in a business like that.”
“You find a way to work with people you have more in common with.”
“I guess I think of a musical as something in which the music is sort of like the engine of the piece - whether it is in the theatre or in film.”

Source : "InDepth InterView: John Kander". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. November 2, 2010.
“You create your own audience, and your own community of peers, and in some ways you create your own forebears as well.”
“An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart.”
“My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.”

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