Minnie Maddern Fiske Quotes
... most of all the actor will love the boys and girls, the men and women, who sit in the cheapest seats, in the very last row of the top gallery. They have given more than they can afford to come. In the most self-effacing spirit of fellowship they are listening to catch every word, watching to miss no slightest gesture or expression. To save his life the actor cannot help feeling these nearest and dearest. He cannot help wishing to do his best for them. He cannot help loving them best of all.
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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
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I remember my father, who was 'somebody' in the synagogue, bringing home with him one of the poor men who waited outside to be chosen to share the Passover meal. These patriarchal manners I remember well, although there was about them an air of bourgeois benevolence which was somewhat comic.
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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I was a very difficult child, and the time I spent reading was about the only peace I gave my mother.
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I started saying things in church that didn't meet with a lot of approval - like 'Jesus isn't coming back.' They started throwing Bibles.
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The best thing I've done with my money is buy a house for my family. You wake up to a house you love and you feel like somebody.
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The whole 'studly womaniser' thing, I mean, I quite enjoy the title - it's just not very accurate.
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I think extreme heterosexuality is a perversion.
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My real priorities were my family - my kids and Bruce - and my work with the E Street Band.
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If you go to the U.S., you've got a huge market, cheap energy, good skills, and pensions are a sensible cost.
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A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
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I'm grateful to God that I'm able to praise his glory through my music.
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We've all heard of the word 'dragon'. Dragon legends are numerous around the world. Legends tell us that the Chinese bred dragons. Many of the descriptions of these 'dragons' fit dinosaurs. Could the stories about dragons actually be accounts of encounters with what we now call dinosaurs?
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I instinctively dress a bit tougher because I've spent a lot of time in the U.S. and I realised there was a certain image projected of me here. I've always been an absolute rebel. When I was in my teen years I had piercings and wore all black.
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English? Who needs to spend time learning that? I'm never going to England!
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I'm starting to mistrust my judgment.
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Michigan taught me a lot. It taught me a lot about maturity, accountability, dependability. And there were so many things to meet, having that number, things I would have earned. If I had went to Michigan and just worn 80 and had a good career, I wouldn't have fulfilled what I wanted.
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Comedy, such a lovely lady, she'll pick you up, you your feeling blue.
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I was very happy in Bombay. I was good at school. There was no reason to change anything. I suppose it must have been some spirit of adventure, of wanting to see the world.
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I have no sense of myself as a sex symbol at all. But the meaning of sex symbol might be a little different in Japan to elsewhere. The Japanese version seems to come with a stronger emphasis on a sort of grownup or mature male charm. And if that's the case, then I guess I'm happy to hear it.
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... most of all the actor will love the boys and girls, the men and women, who sit in the cheapest seats, in the very last row of the top gallery. They have given more than they can afford to come. In the most self-effacing spirit of fellowship they are listening to catch every word, watching to miss no slightest gesture or expression. To save his life the actor cannot help feeling these nearest and dearest. He cannot help wishing to do his best for them. He cannot help loving them best of all.
