June 16, 2008 by webmaster.

“Originality is unexplored territory.

You get there by carrying a canoe –
You can’t take a taxi.”

Alan Alda

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January 21, 2008 by webmaster.

“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature nor do the children of man as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”

Helen Keller
1880-1968, Blind/Deaf Author

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November 26, 2007 by webmaster.

When considering analysis, discussion, or

presentation, listen to your inner self and to your
feelings every time. Should you be mistaken, after
all, the natural growth of your inner life will guide
you slowly and in good time to other conclusions.
Allow your judgments their own quiet, undisturbed
development, which, as with all progress, must come
from deep within and can in no way be forced or
hastened. All things consist of carrying to term and
then giving birth. To allow the completion of every
impression, every germ of a feeling deep within, in
darkness, beyond words, in the realm of instinct
unattainable by logic, to await humbly and patiently
the hour of the descent of a new clarity: that alone
is to live ones art, in the realm of understanding as
in that of creativity.

In this there is no measuring with time. A year
does not matter; ten years are nothing. To be an artist
means not to compute or count; it means to ripen as
the tree, which does not force its sap, but stands
unshaken in the storms of spring with no fear that
summer might not follow. It will come regardless. But
it comes only to those who live as though eternity
stretches before them, carefree, silent, and endless.
I learn it daily, learn it with many pains, for which
I am grateful: Patience is all!

Rainer Maria Rilke (from “Letters to a Young Poet”)

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August 2, 2007 by webmaster.

Life is change…

Growth is optional…

Choose wisely…

- Karen Kaiser Clark

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July 23, 2007 by webmaster.

“The art of acting consists of keeping people from coughing.”

Sir Ralph Richardson

“My old drama coach used to say, ‘Don’t just do something, stand there.’”

Clint Eastwood

“Talk low; talk slow; and don’t talk too much.”

John Wayne

“Acting is like sex.  You should just do it.”

-Joanne Woodward

“Come to work on time, know your lines and don’t bump into the other actors.”

Spencer Tracy

“Don’t take life too seriously.  You’ll never get out alive.”

- Bugs Bunny

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July 16, 2007 by webmaster.

“For when the heart insists on its destiny, resisting the general blandishment, then the agony is great; so too the danger. Forces, however, will have been set in motion beyond the reckoning of the senses.  Sequences of events from the corners of the world will draw gradually together, and miracles of coincidence bring the inevitable to pass. ”

Joseph Campbell

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July 12, 2007 by webmaster.

“There is a spiritual Universe that lies beyond all images in the material world.  It is the work of the poets, the artists to bring that Universe out.  To know what it is and to render it as the old seers and prophets did.  Render it – bring out the transcendent principle of it.  That is what we lack today, really – the few poets and artists who really speak of the mystery – the mystery beyond the image.  The function of the true artist is to bring that out – open up the mystery.  What we really lack today are those true artists.”

Joseph Campbell

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July 12, 2007 by webmaster.

By  Bruce Feirstein

“Vanity Fair” contributing Editor

1. ACCEPT THE BASIC SOCIAL CONTRACT

“I’ll believe you’re a producer if you’ll believe I’m a screenwriter.”  You just never know: Today’s dry cleaner might turn out to be tomorrow’s as-yet-un-indicted mini-mogul.

2. ALL RELATIONSHIPS ARE TRANSACTIONAL

Friendships are based on the promise that you can help each other.  Once you can’t, it’s over.

3. GOSSIP IS CURRENCY

If you’ve got nothing else to sell, you can always sell someone out.  And no matter what anyone tells you, you’re always obliged to reply, “Yes, I already knew that.”

4. OPINIONS ARE LIABILITIES

Nobody ever tells anyone the truth about anything in Hollywood.  All scripts are brilliant, every film is fantastic, everyone is a genius.

5. TAKE CREDIT FOR EVERYTHING

The mythology of Hollywood begins at the front door.  Don’t hesitate to create your own.

6. NEVER CONFUSE ACTIVITY WITH ACCOMPLISHMENT

Just because you spend lots of time in your car driving to meetings doesn’t mean you’re getting anywhere.

7. ALWAYS ESTABLISH BLAME

Nothing is ever your fault: blame the director, blame the studio, blame the star.  They’ll all blame the writer.

8. HEAT DISSIPATES

Success, power, and fame all come with expiration dates.  Nobody really needs a private jet for their exercise equipment, but as long as someone else is willing to pay for it, ‘tis better to have supped at the trough of gluttony once than never at all.

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June 14, 2007 by webmaster.

My successes are not my own.  The way to them was prepared by others.  The fruit of my labors is not my own, for I am preparing the way for the achievements of another.  Nor are my failures my own.  They may spring from the failures of another, but they are also compensated for by another’s achievement.  Therefore, the meaning of my life is not to be looked for merely in the sum total of my own achievements.  It is seen only in the complete integration of my achievements and failures with the achievements and failures of my own generation, my own society and time.

Thomas Merton
“No Man Is an Island”

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April 30, 2007 by webmaster.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness , that most frightens us. We ask ourselves who am I to be brilliant, talented, fabulous? Actually who are you not to be?

You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so other people won’t feel insecure around you.

We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God within us; It’s in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

As we’re liberated from our own fears, our presence automatically liberates others.

Nelson Mandela
(1994 Inauguration address)

(Although I am pretty sure he got this out of a spiritual book called the Course in Miracles)

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