"Capture of the adverse King is the ultimate but not the first object of the game"

-- Wilhelm Steinitz

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“When I was offered the part in Shakespeare In Love a voice in my head said 'not another tights role!”
“I think when you're an actor and you're drawing on your emotions all the time, you need to be quite steady.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“If you put someone in a room with no script to direct, they're just going to sit there. Writing scripts is the execution for a show. Then the director takes that and hires people. It's like trying to build a house without any bricks. You need a great script.”

Source : "Screenwriter John Patrick Shanley on 'Ups and Downs,' Taking Moonstruck to Broadway and the Plays That Inspired Him". Interview with Jon Chattman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.
“One of the challenges of innovation is figuring out how to wipe your mind clean about what you should be doing at any given moment, and not having a religious attachment to what's gotten you there thus far.”
“Life is a precious gift, but we realize this only when we give it to others.”
“And I'm not very coordinated, either. Only on ice skates, not in real life.”
“Let me start by emphasizing that I am open to efforts to expedite environmental procedures for true emergencies or in other clear cases where current laws are needlessly burdensome.”
“At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years.”

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