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One reason we lasted so long is that we usually played two people who were very much in love. As we were realistic actors, we became those two people. So we had a divertissement: I had an affair with him, and he with me. ↗

— Lynn Fontanne

#became #had #him #i #lasted

I wouldn't be interested in just doing a show that's mapped out and choreographed with a set list. That would've been boring so long ago it just wouldn't be any fun. ↗

— Steve Forbert

#any #been #boring #choreographed #doing

There is nothing useless to men of sense. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#nothing #sense #useless

As soon as he thinks about the record, he's finished. The secret is to put it out of your mind. ↗

— Just Fontaine

#finished #mind #out #put #record

My record of 13 goals in the World Cup finals still stands. ↗

— Just Fontaine

#cup finals #finals #goals #record #stands

In the blood-heat of pursuing the enemy, many people are forgetting what we are fighting for. We are fighting for our hard-won liberty and freedom; for our Constitution and the due processes of our laws; and for the right to differ in ideas, religion and politics. I am convinced that in your zeal to fight against our enemies, you, too, have forgotten what you are fighting for. ↗

— Julia Child

#history #julia-child #mccarthyism #politics #politics-of-the-united-states

Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time. ↗

— Margot Fonteyn

#encountered #first #first time #great #minor

Take your work seriously, but never yourself. ↗

— Margot Fonteyn

#seriously #take #work #your #yourself

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous. ↗

— Margot Fonteyn

#difference #disastrous #first #i #i have learned

So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What! no soap?' So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber. ↗

— Samuel Foote

#coming #cut #died #garden #great