#v

An improv team would have eight guys and one woman; that was still pretty standard. If you were a woman improviser, it was actually kind of an advantage because, if you were halfway decent, you'd get a lot more stage time. ↗

— Rachel Dratch

#advantage #because #decent #eight #get

I didn't originally intend on writing a book. I started writing during the day to feel like I was accomplishing something creative. ↗

— Rachel Dratch

#book #creative #day #during #feel

Many now born, by the time they are voters will compose part of a nation with a genius nowhere equaled, and with a vast territory upon which those energies and that genius can operate. ↗

— Richard Parks Bland

#by the time #compose #energies #equaled #genius

When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame. ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#course #courting #different #fame #performer

When you're onstage, you're acutely aware of the reaction of a particular group of people, because it's like a wave. ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#aware #because #group #like #onstage

Everything in our favour was against us. ↗

— Danny Blanchflower

#everything #favour #our #us

A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it. ↗

— Maurice Blanchot

#cannot #face #him #his #never

Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud. ↗

— Maurice Blanchot

#delectable #display #isolates #like #lovers

I remember watching Gilda Radner when I was a kid and everyone thought she was so funny and no one ever said that she was a funny woman, she was just funny. ↗

— Rachel Dratch

#everyone #funny #gilda #i #i remember

I don't use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom. ↗

— Jay Dratler

#goose #i #i write #pen #quill