Quotes of the day, April 26

A situation in a public office is secure, but laborious and mechanical, and without the great springs of life, hope and fear.

William Hazlitt

• Spring
• Situation
• Anxiety

Bravery is a mean state concerned with things that inspire confidence and with things fearful ... and leading us to choose danger and to face it, either because to do so is noble, or because not to do so is base. But to court death as an escape from poverty, or from love, or from some grievous pain, is no proof of bravery, but rather of cowardice.

Aristotle

• Confidence
• Proof
• Noble

A real friend is someone who does n0t give you expectation about delivering on some kind of peer group pressure.

Tony Orlando

What molting time is to birds, so adversity or misfortune is ... for us humans.

Vincent Van Gogh

• Humans
• Bird
• Adversity

For the first two weeks of filming, I remember bristling at some of the occurrences on the set, none of which directly involved me. Then I surrendered to the environment, to Michael's method, and became much happier, even though no one knew what to expect.

Madeleine Stowe

• Remember
• Me
• Environment

You get used to working with one choreographer. You kind of get stuck in that vein and you work your way out of it, picking up someone else's style, their flavor. It takes a bit of time.

Janet Jackson

• Up
• Time
• Work