Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober not to make us sorry but wise. – H. G. Wells
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I think the things that perhaps sad really is that younger people havent come in and I think it must have been absolutely fantastic to have worked in the 50s when you had all of the great Broadway composers and when West Side Story didnt win the Tony Award. – Andrew Lloyd Webber
When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, Just go to sleep. Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as Ive grown older, Ive realized just how smart Knight was. – Ben Stein
I wanted to be a dancer my whole life. And when I gave it up to act, I always had a really sad part of myself that missed it and missed performing and missed being physical in that way. – Lyndsy Fonseca
Dealing with poetry is a daunting task, simply because the reason one does it as an editor at all is because one is constantly coming to terms with ones own understanding of how to understand the world. – Peter Davison
One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible. – Daniel Day-Lewis
