"Awards don't really mean much."

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Uta Hagen

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“Life is too short to be lived badly.”

Source : Marjane Satrapi (2008). “Persepolis I & II”, Random House
“We frail humans are at one time capable of the greatest good and, at the same time, capable of the greatest evil. Change will only come about when each of us takes up the daily struggle ourselves to be more forgiving, compassionate, loving, and above all joyful in the knowledge that, by some miracle of grace, we can change as those around us can change too.”
“We are chained hand and foot by protocol, enslaved to a static, empty world where men and women canâ€™t read, where the scientific advances of the ages are the preserve of the rich, where artists and poets are doomed to endless repetitions and sterile reworking of past masterpieces. Nothing is new. New does not exist. Nothing changes, nothing grows, evolves, develops. Time has stopped. Progress is forbidden”
“The American people have elected their president and my vote doesn't count in the U.S.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“I've certainly been very blessed with opportunity.”
“Every returning New Yorker asks the question: Is this still my city? I have a ready answer, cloaked in obstinate despair: It is. And if it's not, I will love it all the more. I will love it to the point where it becomes mine again.”
“I'm an agnostic. Sometimes I muse deeply on the forces that are for me invisible. When I am almost close to the idea of God, I feel immediately estranged by the horrors of this world, which he seems to tolerate...”

Source : "The Melting - Pot Revisited: Twenty Well - Known Americans of Polish Background". Book by Olgierd Budrewicz, 1977.
“Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.”

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