"In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices"

-- Irwin Shaw

#Character Quotes #Cutting Quotes #Voice Quotes

“The man who has not learned the secret of taking the drudgery out of his task by flinging his whole soul into it, has not learned the first principles of success or happiness.”
“We live, after all, in a world where illusions are sacred and truth profane.”

Source : "For one day only, I'm a Lib Dem". www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2005.
“Ali always said I would be nothing without him, but who would he have been without me?”

Source : "Fire Still Burns Inside Smokin’ Joe Frazier". Interview with Vincent M. Mallozzi, www.nytimes.com. October 18, 2006.
“You don't have that many women in the industry so the lane is wide open.”
“This bill would allow an employee to bring a claim against an employer decades after the alleged initial act of discrimination occurred. Trial lawyers, you can be sure, are salivating at this very prospect.”
“Why are we rock stars? Because we're morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal.”
“I'm all about high-waisted pants and skirts, pencil skirts, and sheer, long-sleeves in the summer.”

Source : "Exclusive: The Vampire Diaries' Kat Graham on Heartbreak, The Spice Girls, and Wearing Black in the Summer". Interview with Lauren Levinson, www.elle.com. August 20, 2012.
“It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.”

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