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		I come from a theater background, and if you're doing a play, your audience is right there, and you're able to have that one-on-one experience. Doing more TV now, when fans come up to me on the street and talk to me on social media, that's a way to bridge that gap.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Samira Wiley 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jackie Robinson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided the best thing I could do for my kids was work and provide. Fortunately, I've been able to do that. Unfortunately, my work was on the road, and that's meant a life of one-nighters. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				B. B. King 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				P. C. Cast 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Zoe Kravitz 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Inside every adult male is a denied little boy. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Nancy Friday 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Mahatma Gandhi 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
		
	
	
	
	
		All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jack Bowman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Queen Victoria 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The only way art lives is through the experience of the observer. The reality of art begins with the eyes of the beholder, through imagination, invention and confrontation. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Keith Haring 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting agents don't realize it but in order to be funny you have to have that other side. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Parker Posey 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Spring and Fall: To a Young Child Márgarét, are you gríeving Over Goldengrove unleaving? Leáves, líke the things of man, you With your fresh thoughts care for, can you? Ah! ás the heart grows older It will come to such sights colder By and by, nor spare a sigh Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie; And yet you wíll weep and know why. Now no matter, child, the name: Sórrow's spríngs áre the same. Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed What heart heard of, ghost guessed: It ís the blight man was born for, It is Margaret you mourn for. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gerard Manley Hopkins 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I come from a theater background, and if you're doing a play, your audience is right there, and you're able to have that one-on-one experience. Doing more TV now, when fans come up to me on the street and talk to me on social media, that's a way to bridge that gap. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Samira Wiley