"Instead of acting in court, I decided to act onstage."

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Raul Julia

#Acting Quotes #Court Quotes

“The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do is to change its consequences.”
“I wish I could free myself from making music that has a dancefloor-function, or at least try to focus more on all the other elements in music.”

Source : Interview with Dominique Leone, pitchfork.com. September 29, 2008.
“The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.”
“Ford's last Fifth Queen novel is amazing. The whole cycle is a noble conception.”
“I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon law and upon courts. These are false hopes, believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. While it lies there it needs no constitution, no law, no courts to save it.”

Source : "The Spirit of Liberty" (speech), New York, N.Y., 21 May 1944
“Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.”

Source : Aidan Chambers (2012). “Dying to Know You”, p.96, Abrams
“Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.”
“Lissa lowered her voice and added, "I might not even go to school anyway. I might defer and join the Peace Corps and go to Africa and shave my head and dig latrines." "Shave your head?" I said, because, really, this was the most ludicrous part of the whole thing. "You? Do you have any idea how ugly most people's bare heads are? They've got all kinds of bumps, Lissa. And you won't know until it's too late and you're flat-out bald.”

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