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Nothing ever goes back on the vine.
Let a good person do good deeds with the same zeal that an evil person does bad ones.
Some people are lucky in life and some aren't.
An event in which you did not achieve your desired outcome (definition of failure).
To be honest, I didn't even know what the Drama Desk Awards were until I was nominated.
Empathy is, first of all, an act of imagination, a storyteller's art
All of whom radiated level-headed competence, physical fitness and pride in appearance, and lived on a different planet from the one defined by general weak ...
I wanted to write you a story about magic. I wanted rabbits appearing from hats. I wanted balloons lifting you into the sky. It turned ...
Only hardness or only softness creates an inability to deal effectively with the fluctuations of life.
I was scouted at a Cure concert. A model scout approached me there and asked me if I modeled, and I thought that was ludicrous.
You don't raise $15 million by accident. I'm asking him to come forward and quit claiming he doesn't know what's going on in his own ...
I feel time beginning to slow, until the last of him is grey powder on the sea and time stops altogether.
Why was it that nine men out of ten thought women were incapable of doing anything but boiling potatoes? she thought furiously, and felt a ...
You NEED to learn how to fly before you learn how to land and you MUST learn how to land before you start flying.
Alan Schwarz of the New York Times calls up the NFL to get a response, and what he gets from Greg Aiello, the league spokesman, ...
People who live entirely by the fertility of their imaginations are fascinating, brilliant and often charming, but they should be sat next to at dinner ...
Obstacles will always be there, but you can be triumphant over the shackles of the past and break through all obstacles.
It's good to give some of the kids a chance for playing time and some confidence. It doesn't do any good to leave starters out ...
You don't have to know me, to read my drama-story.
I was used to being perceived as having a good attitude. Self-control, self-effacement, self-denial. People like this, especially in girls.
There are some subjects in school that I love, but it can still feel like a chore. Acting never feels like a chore.
Design acknowledges change. Its meaning encompasses change in our times. To design is to 'create order and to function according to a plan.' The notion ...
We neither fear death nor look forward to it, but revere it as a most exalted experience. Life, death and the afterlife are all part ...
I had no interest in really becoming an actress or doing that kind of thing ... I just knew that I wanted to do something ...
When someone focuses on the expectation of accolades rather than the enjoyment of the work process, that person is setting up himself for disappointment.
O.M.G. Lucca, what are you feeding her? Everyday I look at you, and I swear those twinnes must double in size. Look at your bump ...
In Stalinism the tragedy is that its origin is some kind of radical emancipatory project. In the origins you had a kind of workers' uprising; ...
When circumstances overwhelmAnd seem too much to bear,Depend unpon the Lord for strengthAnd trust His tender care.
I had hoped I would have some definitive news to give you by now, but I've heard (unofficially) that they need/will take another 2 week ...
True renunciation comes through acceptance of all that life offers.
Mandy stammered. "I've never been to a town council meeting." "No reason you should. They're kind of like root canals." Jake straightened a tie that ...
Even the impossible becomes possible through devotion.
The reality is that when Sinn Fein gets into these talks, there will be no more options for armed republicanism, for the IRA.
Certainly, Gandhi is not inferior to Christ in goodness and sanctity, and he surpasses him in touching humility. Gandhi is the prophet of hope in ...
To improve the oarsman you must improve the man.
There are two things to do about the gospel. Believe it and behave it.
Moms, even good ones, sometimes lose it a little so as not to lose it all.
Depression is the price we pay for our imagination and intelligence.
Outside the windows, the land was as flat, as interesting, as the head of an anvil, and the shadows of the corn advanced like the ...
I hope you brought your wallet, 'cause the rent in Hell gets paid in advance!
I pulled him tighter as I lay back down. I had no idea where we went from here. No fucking clue what happened tomorrow. But ...
In wilderness people can find the silence and the solitude and the noncivilized surroundings that can connect them once again to their evolutionary heritage, and ...
Liv STOP moving! Liv froze. "What is it?" Liv whispered from her prone position. She was maybe fifteen feet from the entrance. Particles of dirt ...
There is no rule of law until the Mafia needs lawyers.
You see, it started when my friends and I were all hanging out in my room one day. There are four of us that all ...
There is a horror that sometimes comes with being right.
My experiment in money exchange was the temptation to set up a bank. The absence of any Islamic banking was also another factor in establishing ...
I get it, you know. I'm operating on privilege too. It may be a number of notches down from yours but it's every bit as ...
I may be going nowhere, but what a ride.
Nothing here but kitchen things.