"To be a good actor... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the laborious task that has barely just been finished."

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Source : Sarah Bernhardt (1924). “The Art of the Theatre”

Sarah Bernhardt

#Soul Quotes #Tasks Quotes #Actors Quotes

“I have nothing more to give you than my heart. Spanish saying Hearts are not to be had as a gift hearts are to be earned...”
“I was born in Sinaloa, Mexico, along with two of my siblings. The rest were born here in the United States. I didn't know we were illegal until I was in the 8th grade. We would call other kids wetbacks, but we were the real wetbacks!”
“Everything works out how it should.”
“I find the term perfect child to be an oxymoron.”

Source : "Is Junie B. Jones Talking Trash?" by Anna Jane Grossman, www.nytimes.com. July 26, 2007.
“As a woman, we all want to feel attractive. We all want to feel that we're making the very best of ourselves so we can accept ourselves.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The idea of trying to create things that last-forever knowledge-has guided my work for a long time now.”
“Drugs took me to places; they were like portals. It's kind of a clichÃ©, but they were like portals to altered states of consciousness into ways of imagining the world, or seeing a world beyond this world, or seeing a world beyond this world that I might not have gotten to unless I discovered meditation and a very deep, intense spiritual path based on contemplation and meditation.”
“No half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly.”

Source : Letter to Edith. "J. R. R. Tolkien: A Biography". Book by Humphrey Carpenter, p. 66, 1977.

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