"There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance."

-- Kate Smith

#Second Chance Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Stage Quotes

“I know that I will go to my grave as Professor Sprout, whatever else Iâ€™ve done.”
“The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.”
“No wonder Sherlock Holmes did all that coke. Math is hard.”
“In a different moment, in the 60s and 70s, I did believe we were going to succeed - that we were going to create a revolution, that America was going to be a completely transformed nation state and that there would be an amazingly different set of beliefs; that this country would reflect. And I thought that that was the fulfillment of the American democratic dream and I believed in it passionately.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears, hesitations, doubts and the vague stirrings of decency that go with individual judgement. When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom- freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. Herein undoubtedly lies part of the attractiveness of a mass movement”
“Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.”
“I had always wanted to be on SNL, it's not always great, but it's this leftover childhood dream.”
“You travel with the hope that something unexpected will happen. It has to do with enjoying being lost and figuring it out and the satisfaction. I always get a little disappointed when I know too well where I'm going, or when I've lived in a place so long that there's no chance I could possibly get lost.”

Source : "Andrew Bird Talks ‘Break It Yourself,’ And His Obsession With Maps". Interview with Gazelle Emami, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 6, 2012.

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