"Silence has a myriad of meanings. In the theater, silence is an absence of words, but never an absence of meaning."

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Source : Sanford Meisner, Dennis Longwell (2012). “Sanford Meisner on Acting”, p.29, Vintage

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“It is sometimes hard to escape the belief that history exists against the artist.”

Source : "Ask the Author Live: Hisham Matar on Libya". The New Yorker Live Chat, www.newyorker.com. October 25, 2011.
“So small, so blue, in grassy places / My flowers raise / Their tiny faces.”

Source : Cicely Mary Barker (1991). “A Treasury of Flower Fairies”, Warne
“I used to drink tons of caffeine. Now I make smoothies with frozen berries and Green Vibrance health powder.”
“There is nothing to compare with the instantaneous feedback a singer gets from the people sitting in front of him. That is where it all comes together - all the rehearsing and working to get everything just exactly right.”
“Other than to amuse himself, why should a man pretend to know where he's going or understand what he sees?”
“If price spikes don't change eating habits, perhaps the combination of deforestation, pollution, climate change, starvation, heart disease and animal cruelty will gradually encourage the simple daily act of eating more plants and fewer animals.”

Source : Mark Bittman (2015). “A Bone to Pick: The good and bad news about food, with wisdom and advice on diets, food safety, GMOs, farming, and more”, p.58, Clarkson Potter
“I regret starting drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes and joining Facebook.”

Source : Source: www.vice.com
“It is a hard thing when one has shot sixty-five lions or more, as I have in the course of my life, that the sixty-sixth should chew your leg like a quid of tobacco. It breaks the routine of the thing, and putting other considerations aside, I am an orderly man and don't like that. This is by the way.”

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