"With increasing frequency and growing vehemence, you hear people saying they are ashamed to be Australians."

-- Hugh Mackay

#People Quotes #Vehemence Quotes #Growing Quotes

“A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers.”

Source : Leonard Bernstein (2007). “The Infinite Variety of Music”, p.141, Amadeus Press
“No one will ever ask me to sing because it's beautiful. My secret is hiding my musicianship behind humor.”
“I can't think of anyone I admire who isn't fuelled by self-doubt. It's an essential ingredient. It's the grit in the oyster.”

Source : "A life in theatre: Richard Eyre" by Andrew Dickson, www.theguardian.com. November 29, 2010.
“I am confident that we will meet whatever challenges the future may bring.”
“9/11 was my first day teaching at Harvard University. My classes were all canceled and I got back to town two days later. I'm one of those people who doesn't think the world has changed any at all since 9/11. It just seemed to be almost inevitable, something like that. That's one of the reasons why the backstory of Fay Grim goes all the way back into the '80s. I was trying to sketch out the continuity of all this hanky-panky between the security agencies of the world.”
“Happy Days was a wonderful, wonderful experience and I would not have traded it for the world.”

Source : "Interview with Marion Ross, Mrs. Cunningham from Happy Days". www.audiologyonline.com. February 27, 2006.
“Postwar U.S. was the world's leader in science and technology. The investment in science research was staggering.”
“This is going to sound completely absurd, but I do sometimes feel like the enjoyment of an awards ceremony or the pride in the finished article hasn't ever surpassed the joy of doing the work, of making it. The doing it is really the bit I'm there for.”

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