Read quote“The lighter phase of comedy, representing the more natural and less laboured school of modern life, and holding the mirror up to nature without regard to the conventionalities of the theatre, was the aim I had in view.”
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Read quote“Cela fait 60 ans que je porte ce désir de reconnaissance de la Palestine.”
Read quote“I don’t really like them. They are nerve-wracking.”
Read quote“Someone or other is bound to get offended.”
Read quote“Finding the truth is not a crime.”
Read quote“El teatro es todo lo contrario de un debate.”
Read quote“Success dulls hunger.”
Read quote“No-one fully understood the risks which were being taken.”
Read quote“¿Con qué derecho y con qué justicia tenéis en tan cruel y horrible servidumbre a estos indios?”
Read quote“Not to speak of sentiment and thought, which constitute the real and lasting merit of any work.”
Read quote“Here we are again!”
Read quote“Я должен был остаться самим собой.”
Read quote“There are lots of street smarts that you won’t find in a text book, which I teach in my seminars, that could increase people’s quality of life.”
Read quote“Music is the essence of my existence.”
Read quote“Which is the source of unmixed happiness—treasure or service before the divine presence of Rama?”
Read quote“For any viewer to experience a feeling of trust in what he is being shown.”
Read quote“I thank you, my Father, for your words, which sweeten my heart and put a stone into my stomach.”
Read quote“The term signifies the idea of unity between the entire human race and the whole cosmos/universe rather than the unity among Churches and Christians.”
Read quote“Who knows if in the time of their children, these very pictures now painted for Maharajas and nobles will not become their property as well, and find their way into museums.”
Read quote“I owed England everything and I wanted to give something back.”