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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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
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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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Even though I have fond feelings for comedy clubs, I enjoy the focus you get in a theater. Comedy clubs are a different animal. People are being served nachos and there's a blender going off in the background.
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There's a feeling of power in reserve, a power that drives right through the bone, like the shiver you sense in the shaft of an axe when you take it into your hand. You can strike, or you can not strike, and if you choose to hold back the blow, you can still feel inside you the resonance of the omitted thing.
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We can just assume they have much more and powerful, more advanced technology, all the new computers, everything could be much more easier and help them to build much more and many more nuclear weapons.
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Free will appears unfettered, deliberate; it is boundlessly free, wandering, the spirit. But fate is a necessity; unless we believe that world history is a dream-error, the unspeakable sorrows of mankind fantasies, and that we ourselves are but the toys of our fantasies. Fate is the boundless force of opposition against free will. Free will without fate is just as unthinkable as spirit without reality, good without evil. Only antithesis creates the quality.
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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.
