"Acting is a sport. On stage you must be ready to move like a tennis player on his toes. Your concentration must be keen, your reflexes sharp; your body and mind are in top gear, the chase is on. Acting is energy. In the theatre people pay to see energy."

-- Clive Swift

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“Learn from the experts. Study successful men and women and do what they do and you'll be successful too.”
“There are places on Earth, in every country, where, for various reasons, good schools cannot be built and good teachers cannot or do not want to go.”
“Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.”
“More men die from overeating than undernourishment.”
“For he would be thinking of love Till the stars had run away And the shadows eaten the moon.”
“if a builder builds a house and the house falls and kills some one in the house the owners may kill the builder.”
“As a child growing up in the precincts of wealth, and later as a college student, newspaper reporter and resident of New York's Upper East Side, I got used to listening to the talk of financial killings and sexual misalliance that animates the conversation of the rich and the familiars of the rich.”
“The very greatest genius, after all, is not the greatest thing in the world, any more than the greatest city in the world is the country or the sky. It is the concentration of some of its greatest powers, but it is not the greatest diffusion of its might. It is not the habit of its success, the stability of its sereneness.”

Source : Leigh Hunt (1852). “Leigh Hunt's Works”, p.16

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