"It had been drilled into us that when an audience pays to see a performance, it is entitled to the best performance you can give.Nothing in your personal life must interfere, neither fatigue, illness, nor anxiety--not even joy."

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Source : Lillian Gish (1969). “The Movies, Mr. Grifith, and Me”

Lillian Gish

#Giving Quotes #Joy Quotes #Anxiety Quotes

“I believe in the Constitution. I believe in separation of powers. I believe in the rule of law. I believe in limited government. And these are principles and policies that apparently neither the national Republican nor the national Democrat Party believes in. I believe great damage is being done to our Constitution, and I see no remedy at all, no likelihood of that changing, if we rely on the two parties to field our candidates for national office.”

Source : "Litigant explains why he brought Pledge suit". "Talkback Live" with Arthel Neville, www.cnn.com. June 26, 2002.
“You think of George Washington, this man who was larger than life, and in some ways he was. But at the same time, he's just a person.”

Source : "Interview: Benjamin Walker and the cast of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson". Interview with Sharon Steel, www.timeout.com. November 5, 2010.
“How it works is you have an organization that provides you with players, and our job, as weâ€™ve said all along, is just to coach â€™em up.”
“Thomas More's birth was noted by his father upon a blank page at the back of a copy of Geoffrey of Monmouth's 'Historia Regum Britanniae'; for a lawyer John More was remarkably inexact in his references to that natal year, and the date has been moved from 1477 to 1478 and back again.”
“Contemporary art often plays to the part of us that is very uncomfortable with not being sure, that cannot maintain a state of 'don't know'. The over-prioritising of meaning gets in the way of just experiencing the art in a more sensual way. Judging quality purely from an intuitive emotional response needs more confidence and experience than just working it out like a crossword clue.”

Source : Source: www.theguardian.com
“Nigerian nun Bernadette Duru says the African church hierarchy is indifferent to people in rural areas.”
“We've seen those results in generations of Muslim immigrants - farmers and factory workers, helping to lay the railroads and build our cities, the Muslim innovators who helped build some of our highest skyscrapers and who helped unlock the secrets of our universe.”
“Youâ€™ve already lost the battle if youâ€™re afraid to fight.”

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