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I realized that I wanted to play characters and do traditional theatre. I wanted to make believe again. I like putting on a costume and pretending to be someone else for a few hours, and I have a great respect for playwrights. ↗

— Lusia Strus

#believe #characters #costume #else #few

People just take your kindness for weakness sometimes, and that's just the bottom line. ↗

— Ruben Studdard

#bottom line #just #kindness #line #people

We became somewhat household names really quickly, within a matter of - what? - three, four months. So it's hard to get used to, and it's really sometimes hard to understand. ↗

— Ruben Studdard

#four #get #hard #household #matter

I've had some threaten not to give Communion to me, even though they don't know my position, just because I'm a Democrat. I've had cardinals refuse to shake my hand because I'm a Democrat. ↗

— Bart Stupak

#cardinals #communion #democrat #even #give

I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#i #i write #letter #someone #story

Create a world in which these things do or do not exist, or in which they are extended in some way. Test reality against this fiction. The reader will recognize the world that you're talking about, even though it may be another one altogether. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#against #altogether #another #create #even

I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#five #how #i #learned #live

When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#good #good writer #got #properly #say

As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#appealing #bring #extraordinarily #forbid #make

If somebody's pointing a trembling finger at your pants and saying you shouldn't be doing that, follow that finger back, go up the arm and look at the head that's behind it, because there's almost always something fairly woolly in there. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#always #arm #back #because #behind