"It's funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It's not like the two things are so separate as to be like apples and oranges. The writer and the actor are one."

-- Sam Shepard

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“If chocolate is a foretaste of heaven, what does it mean that chocolate is freely available to all?”
“I play a detective, very close to myself actually.”
“Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the evidence.”
“In Spain there's the king - and then there's Antonio.”
“I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.”
“Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.”
“I have never done anything 'useful'. No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity of the world... Judged by all practical standards, the value of my mathematical life is nil; and outside mathematics it is trivial anyhow. I have just one chance of escaping a verdict of complete triviality, that I may be judged to have created something worth creating. And that I have created something is undeniable: the question is about its value.”
“Focus on the moment, not the monsters that may or may not be up ahead.”

Source : Ryan Holiday (2014). “The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph”, p.35, Penguin

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