Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not… We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them. – John Henry Newman
What looks absolutely fabulous in rehearsal can fall flat in front of an audience. The audience dictates what you do or dont change. – Harvey Fierstein
Id say that after my father passed my writing changed, it went deeper. Most would say matured but I dont think Id use that word in relation to my progress. I think change is a little more accurate. – Rick Springfield
Through this broad street, restless ever, Ebbs and flows a human tide, Wave on wave a living river; Wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide. – John Greenleaf Whittier
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age. – W. H. Auden
Actually, the year anniversary of what you just heard, my son Grahame and I are going to be in a play together, and Im acting for the first time in front of an audience that doesnt consist of a high school drama class. – Phil Lesh
