"The play is one of the very few pieces of great dramatic and comic writing that I have read in a long, long time. I was drawn to it because of the power of the writing, which gives me the actor a chance to explore many facets of myself."

-- Linda Lavin

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“I did think I did see all heaven before me, and the great God himself.”

Source : "Anecdotes, Biographical Sketches and Memoirs, Volume 1". Book by Laetitia Matilda Hawkins, 1822; later quoted in Horatio Townsend "An Account of the Visit of Handel to Dublin" (p. 93), 1852.
“Transmitting information is easier than creating understanding.”

Source : Harold Evans (2009). “My Paper Chase: True Stories of Vanished Times: An Autobiography”, p.182, Hachette UK
“My significance is found in pointing to Someone far more significant.”
“Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose.”
“A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value he puts on himself.”
“Nothing I did where the only reason for doing it was the money was ever worth it, except as bitter experience.”
“When a poor man, hungry and unseeing because his eyesight is failing, grabs me and starts begging, I feel the Nazi in myself. I abhor this man, and I want him to keep his hands off me.”
“There is a dead spot in the night, that coldest, blackest time when the world has forgotten evening and dawn is not yet a promise. A time when it is far too early to arise, but so late that going to bed makes small sense.”

Source : Robin Hobb (2002). “Assassin's Quest: The Farseer Trilogy”, p.42, Spectra

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