"All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists."

-- Stephen Sondheim

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“With climate change and health crises rightfully receiving international attention, the time has come to focus on hunger as a top priority. WHO regards hunger and malnutrition as the gravest threat to public health, and climate change threatens to further destabilise already fragile food-production systems.”

Source : "The Challenge of Hunger". The Lancet Article, www.thelancet.com. January 17, 2008.
“I don't have an ideal type; I'm more of a love-at-first-sight guy.”
“Actually 'Soon' has more than the Left Behind series, but I really believe less is more.”
“They say funerals are not for the dead but for the living. Those rites are what permit you to move on, so if you don't deal with the remains, you can never deal with the memories. That might be true; we may have walked in their dust down on Venice Minor, but it's not the same as a proper good-bye.”
“Few people will appreciate the music if I just show them the notes. Most of us need to [hear it].”
“A moment was not a single moment at all, but rather an infinite number of different moments, depending on who was seeing things and how.”

Source : Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.214, Penguin
“I think any songwriter or record, no matter how good it is, can become tedious if it's the same person's point of view. After four tracks, you start to get worn down no matter how good it is. It can be relentlessly good, but it's still going to wear you out.”
“Likewise, I see no shame in writing Captain America or Wolverine.”

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