"I waited far too long, being optimistic rather than realistic. I also failed to do my homework"

-- Gordon Clark

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“In terms of jobs, I'm an actor. There's gotta' be depth there. I'd never say yes to something just to play the hot guy. That's not what I'm interested in.”
“Go where we may, rest where we will, Eternal London haunts us still.”

Source : Thomas Moore (1835). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, Including Melodies, Ballads, Etc”, p.204
“I feel that there is an alternate ending that leaps off too far into fantasy and there is an alternate ending that leaps off too far into pessimism, but that, in fact, the novel as it has developed should, if it's functioning correctly, have equipped you as the reader to make your own decision about where you want to go with that, about where you're going to fall on that continuum. So, the novel is taking you directly up to the point that you have to choose, and it's letting you do that.”
“My day-to-day local issues are rooted in an underlying fear of death.”

Source : "Q&A: Alex Karpovsky of Girls". Interview with Mike Ayers, www.esquire.com. February 21, 2013.
“A couple of years ago my friend and business partner Jeffrey Richards was doing the Gore Vidal play, The Best Man, starring James Earl Jones. I asked Jeffrey out to lunch and asked him what he thought of James playing Grandpa in You Can't Take It With You. Jeffrey thought it was a fabulous idea and so did James.”

Source : Source: blog.roundabouttheatre.org
“Silence is a strange thing to us who live: we desire it, we fear it, we worship it, we hate it. There is a divinity about cats, as long as they are silent: the silence of swans gives them an air of legend.”

Source : Keith Douglas (2014). “Alamein to Zem Zem”, p.18, Faber & Faber
“There seem to be only two kinds of people: Those who think that metaphors are facts, and those who know that they are not facts. Those who know they are not facts are what we call "atheists," and those who think they are facts are "religious." Which group really gets the message?”
“If you hand me a guitar, I'll play the blues. That's the place I automatically go.”

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