"Usefulness! It is not a fascinating word, and the quality is not one of which the aspiring spirit can dream o' nights, yet on the stage it is the first thing to aim at."

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Source : Dame Ellen Terry (1908). “The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections”

Ellen Terry

#Dream Quotes #Night Quotes #Quality Quotes

“Oh sirs, deal with sin as sin, and speak of heaven and hell as they are, and not as if you were in jest.”
“Goose neck is a delicacy. You have to at least try it. In fancy restaurants people pay up to fifty dollars a plate for this stuff.' And at our house we were force-fed it for free. Just another irony of life.”
“I think that itâ€™s premature to call Libya a democracy because political order is still so fragile there and the command by the state over the means of violence is still so inadequate that I think state building remains a major challenge. And until the militias can be reined in and the authority of the democratically-elected state can really be firmly established, thereâ€™s still tremendous fragility and vulnerability in the unfolding story in Libya.”
“It would be foolish and wrong to ignore the fact that all our universities today tread a very dangerous path. Increasingly, they are accepting government money because they are doing things that government wants done. How great a peril is this in a democracy?”

Source : "Speaking Of Canada" by Vincent Massey, 1959.
“Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: as 'art for art's sake' it is unthinkable. A man may sing in his bath every morning without the least encouragement, but no cook can cook just for his or her own sake in a like manner. All good cooks, like all great artists, must have an audience worth cooking for.”
“My parents, and especially my mother, always made films in a very artisanal kind of way. Her office was at home. She was always filming low budget stuff and including her family inside. It was more a way of life. I related to that from the beginning.”
“Never give up what you want most for what you want today.”
“I think I have some interesting things to say and I don't think anybody out there is saying them.”

Source : "Is Robin Quivers leaving 'Howard Stern Show'?". www.today.com. May 7, 2011.

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