"I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most."

-- Uta Hagen

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“It's cold and it's winter and the world has gone to sleep”
“I had the training at drama school where I studied Shakespeare and Brecht and Chekov and all these period historical playwrights and I think that I responded to the material.”
“One may lack words to express the impact of beauty but no one who has felt it remains untouched. It is renewal, enlargement, intensification. The parks preserve it permanently in the inheritance of the American citizens.”
“Attention is the key to transformation- and full attention also implies acceptance.”
“I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.”
“I've always been a rule-follower. Even when I was a kid, I tried to do everything by the book.”
“In my own worst seasons I've come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a long time, at a single glorious thing: a flame of red geranium outside my bedroom window. And then another: my daughter in a yellow dress. And another: the perfect outline of a full, dark sphere behind the crescent moon. Until I learned to be in love with my life again. Like a stroke victim retraining new parts of the brain to grasp lost skills, I have taught myself joy, over and over again(15).”
“Our country was thereby saved from the consequences of its distracting individualistic conception of democracy, and its merely legal conception of nationality. It was because the followers of Jackson and Douglas did fight for it, that the Union was preserved.”

Source : Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.56, Cosimo, Inc.

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