"As a working actor, all I want to do is work. That's it. It's terrifying when you don't work. It's very hard when you don't work. There have been times when I've been out of work for like six months. I feel theatre to me is like manna."

-- Sandra Oh

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“The worst nightmare for al Qaeda is to come into a community that feels supported and has hope.”
“Even though I have fond feelings for comedy clubs, I enjoy the focus you get in a theater. Comedy clubs are a different animal. People are being served nachos and there's a blender going off in the background.”
“[I have a] way of making narrative sculpture, where first you make a text and out of that text you make objects. [...] I start with a story and then I make sculpture from that story, it's just that the stories become more and more elaborate.”

Source : "A Natural Love Story: Matthew Barney Talks About 'Drawing Restraint 9'" by Eugene Hernandez, www.indiewire.com. March 27, 2006.
“It's amazing what you can get if you quietly, clearly and authoritatively demand it.”
“I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about”
“Listening is as important as talking. If you're a good listener, people often compliment you for being a good conversationalist....”
“When I was 15 years old I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turned out years later it was all on inside information! But before that came to light he was very successful, very flamboyant. And I thought, "This is what I want to do". So I'm 15 years old, I decide I'm going to Wall Street.”

Source : "She's worth $100m, runs a $400m hedge fund, has two sets of twins and four nannies". Interview with Marianne MacDonald, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2007.
“When writing of oneself one should show no mercy. Yet why at the first attempt to discover one's own truth does all inner strength seem to melt away in floods of self-pity and tenderness and rising tears?”

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