"I was so mad at my agent. I had polished and polished and polished [the play], and he referred to it as a draft. I wrote him a bitter letter: How can you call this a draft? I don't do drafts! By now I've done 18, and its turning, in the rehearsal room, into a 19th."

-- Cynthia Ozick

#Play Quotes #Mad Quotes #Done Quotes

“Watch with awe and amazement at how quickly an engineer will become totally annoyed by inefficiency.”
“I always knew I wanted to write, but I didn't know that I would want to do investigative reporting - in part because it seemed so ill-suited for my personality, or I thought it was ill-suited for my personality, insofar as I'm not very aggressive, and I'm not confrontational.”
“Only poetry can measure the distance between ourselves and the Other.”

Source : Charles Simic (2013). “The Monster Loves His Labyrinth”, p.67, Copper Canyon Press
“My dad passed away before my freshman year, and it altered how I thought. I was depressed - I didn't hang out with my friends. I worked through it by dancing.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Reality is always extraordinary.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word.”
“The battle is lost or won in the secret places of the will before God, never first in the external world.”
“Another reason why we must love our enemies is that hate scars the soul and distorts the personality.”

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