"Getting up and criticising the other fellow because he's in and you are not seems to me a futile waste of time. Especially as you know in your heart that you would be doing more or less the same thing if you were in his place."

-- Ryan Shawcross

#Heart Quotes #Waste Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“I met Richard Burton, an RAF cadet on a two-term course. I would have flirted more enthusiastically if it had not been for the horrid boils on the back of his neck.”
“Writing was a spiritual exercise for my father, the only thing he really believed in.”
“Take care of things close to home first. Straighten up your room before you save the world. Then save the world.”

Source : Ron Padgett (2013). “Collected Poems”, p.532, Coffee House Press
“I'm sure that Nero didn't set fire to Rome. It was the Christian-Bolsheviks who did that, just as the Commune set fire to Paris in 1871 and the Communists set fire to the Reichstag in 1932.”
“I am an eye. I am a mechanical eye. I, a machine, I am showing you a world, the likes of which only I can see”
“Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth. If you imagine yourself having to spend two and a bit hours cooking bolognaise, remembering a whole major work by David Hare and speaking it at the correct moment between chopping carrots and stirring the onions in front of an audience - the normal human response is 'Please, can I go to the airport?'”
“There is no doubt that directing television has helped hone my directing skills. What television teaches you is to be efficient and to think on your feet. You have to adhere to strict deadlines and budget constraints.”
“It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.”

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