"The tragedian will always be a limited tragedian if he has not learned how to laugh. The comedian who cannot weep will never touch the highest levels of mirth."

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Source : Dame Ellen Terry (1908). “The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections”

Ellen Terry

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“The test of one's decency is how much of a fight one can put up after one has stopped caring, and after one has found out that one can never please the people they wanted to please.”
“Never threaten, because a threat is a promise to pay that it isn't always convenient to meet, but if you don't make it good it hurts your credit. Save a threat till you're ready to act, and then you won't need it.”

Source : George Horace Lorimer (2016). “Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son”, p.78, Lulu.com
“I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd like to do a couple of larger things.”
“Life is an illusion. I am held together in the nothingness by art.”
“What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!”
“I'm from Canada, so Thanksgiving to me is just Thursday with more food. And I'm thankful for that.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Beware of the clever ones; the dumb ones are safer.”
“Mary was a virgin and he Bible says that she 'found favor' - that means there must have been others in the race. What quality did she have that made a depository of the royal seed? She was a virgin - a clean place - he looks for clean places to deposit truth & she was open to this unique & unusual move of God.”

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