"You have to be able to enthral and persuade at the same time."

-- Riccardo Muti

“When my time comes, just skin me and put me up there on Trigger, just as though nothing had ever changed.”
“I'm still waiting to hit it big. But there was the moment when I didn't have to work at the restaurant anymore, which is the milestone for every actor. When your job is just to be an actor and not to have to do anything else.”
“It is what you choose not to observe in your life that controls your life.”

Source : Lynn V. Andrews (2007). “Jaguar Woman”, p.21, Penguin
“All small men, all non-power hitters, must learn to bunt well. It's half your game.”
“When the writer (or the artist in general) says he has worked without giving any thought to the rules of the process, he simply means he was working without realizing he knew the rules.”
“A little known area often defines the fortunes of leaders -- management skills.”
“If you go to your death rather than do everything you might to prevent what is happening, you are merely committing suicide and trying to make yourself feel better about it. That is the act of a coward. It is beneath contempt.”
“Shrapnel was invented by an Englishman of the same name. Don't you wish you could have something named after you?”

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