"In times of disorder and stress, the fanatics play a prominent role; in times of peace, the critics. Both are shot after the revolution."

-- Edmund Wilson

#Stress Quotes #Play Quotes #Roles Quotes

“If there is ever a fascist takeover in America, it will come not in the form of storm troopers kicking down doors but with lawyers and social workers saying. "I'm from the government and I'm here to help.”

Source : Jonah Goldberg (2008). “Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning”, p.334, Crown Forum
“The center will be fully operational in two years' time, but probably in the middle of the year we will have a temporary laboratory of 4,000 square feet.”
“There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed.”
“Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.”
“We're trying to do what Miles Davis would have wanted us to do, which is approach it as artists with his life as the canvas.”
“Will.i.am and I performed at Wango Tango. That's when my daughter said that I had made it in music.”
“As I told you, from the time I was fifteen, I thought the theater was too much involved with actors trying to make the audience love them, being over emotional.”
“Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are your ready?'”

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