"In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity â€” please observe, a plodding mediocrity â€” for a mere mediocrity does not go very far, but a plodding one gets quite a distance. There is joy in that success, and a distinction can come from courage, fidelity and industry."

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Source : "Nine Old Men". Book by Drew Pearson and Robert Sharon Allen, 1936.

Benjamin Cardozo

#Distance Quotes #Joy Quotes #Doe Quotes

“In '75, the year both A Chorus Line and Chicago hit Broadway, my head spun around and I became the ultimate theater queen for life.”

Source : Broadway World Interview, www.broadwayworld.com. July 25, 2003.
“Conscience is the still small voice that has been trying since the infancy of our species to tell us that we are evolutionarily, emotionally, and spiritually One, and that if we seek peace and happiness, we must behave that way.”

Source : Martha Stout, Ph.D. (2005). “The Sociopath Next Door”, p.216, Harmony
“I'm not different. I'm not different at all. The wrapping is different but the gift is still the same.”
“My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around.”
“The Browning love story? It is an ideal, all too rare, and yet I hardly think it strange. It would have been far stranger had the fates allowed those two brilliant passionate souls to beat themselves out in silence.”
“Memory is a great deceiver: it embroiders until naught is left but the glory and the pleasure.”
“I will say that when I first came out to the States to work on 'Jericho,' that was the only time that I've ever been frightened about a job, because in America they tell stories over such a long time, and I was petrified that I'd get bored.”

Source : "Lennie James on Acting in England and the U.S". Interview with June Thomas, www.slate.com. August 27, 2012.
“When Jane and I spoke out, people thought, What ungrateful children those two kids are to be that nasty about their father.”

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