"Laughter can bring a new perspective."

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Source : "Family Survival". Interview with Arthur Holmberg, americanrepertorytheater.org.

Christopher Durang

#Laughter Quotes #Perspective Quotes

“My Aunt Marion used to always tell me 'a touch of sun adds an air of intrigue...'”
“Hey." Tod squeezed my hand to draw me out of my thoughts. "I think death looks good on you.”
“It's just Jessica and Marcus, oxymoronically alone together.”
“The only time Republicans will shake fists and point fingers is over a war delayed, one that isn't led by the US, or a war waged without the necessary conviction (read collateral damage).”
“I was sitting on top of people and it was just really uncomfortable. There was no place to move. And, I don't like auditioning, anyways. With auditions, you can get so nervous, or other things get into your head and throw you off, and it doesn't really reflect what you can do, as an actor. The whole thing was just really nerve-wracking, but I ended up getting it.”
“Until you have kids, you can't imagine how much you could possibly love a human being.”
“Growing up as a chubby kid with a ton of imaginary friends and a Cyndi Lauper obsession, I learned about rejection early on and was constantly trying to avoid it.”

Source : "What would Beth Ditto do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2007.
“I felt a funeral in my brain, and mourners to and fro kept treading, treading till I felt that sense was breaking through. And when they all were seated, a service, like a drum, kept beating, beating, till I felt my mind was going numb. And then I heard them lift a box and creak across my soul with those same boots of lead again, then space began to toll, as if the heavens were a bell and being were an ear, and I, and silence, some strange race wrecked, solitary, here. Just then, a plank in reason broke, and I fell down and down and hit a world at every plunge, and finished knowing then.”

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