Charles Plymell quotes

Charles Plymell quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“It is hard to notice age in those who dream.”
-- Charles Plymell

Source : Charles Plymell (2000). “Hand on the Doorknob: A Charles Plymell Reader”

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“All play aspires to the condition of paradise...through play in all its forms...we hope to achieve a state that our larger Greco-Roman, Judeo- Christian culture has always known was lost. Where it exists, we do not know, although we always have envisioned it as a garden...always as removed, as an enclosed green place...Paradise is an ancient dream...It is a dream of ourselves as better than we are, back to what we were.”
“My biggest dream to connect people through music has come true. In a world where there are enough reasons to separate us, the Oscars have unified us.”
“Once upon a time, when men and women hurtled through the air on metal wings, when they wore webbed feet and walked on the bottom of the sea, learning the speech of whales and the songs of the dolphins, when pearly-fleshed and jewelled apparitions of Texan herdsmen and houris shimmered in the dusk on Nicaraguan hillsides, when folk in Norway and Tasmania in dead of winter could dream of fresh strawberries, dates, guavas and passion fruits and find them spread next morning on their tables, there was a woman who was largely irrelevant, and therefore happy.”

Source : FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from Aug 27, 2011
“Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.”
“But dreams change. Fate has a way showing you paths you want more.”
“When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.”
“Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.”
“Luckily, I's learned at an early age that self-preservation was the only way to survive with your soul intact.”
“What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?”
“It is hard to notice age in those who dream.”

Source : Charles Plymell (2000). “Hand on the Doorknob: A Charles Plymell Reader”

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