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“A director is a general in charge of an army of traitors like any showman. An audience will love you, laugh with you and wait outside your stage door when you're hot and on a roll, but no audience is ever truly friendly. Not for long. Bore 'em or disappoint 'em - even once - and they'll turn on you and tear you to pieces, regardless of who you are or might once have been.”
― Richard Stanley

“What was there to be gained by fighting the most evil wizard who has ever existed?" said Black, with a terrible fury in his face. "Only innocent lives, Peter!"
"You don't understand!" whined Pettigrew. "He would have killed me, Sirius!"
"THEN YOU SHOULD HAVE DIED!" roared Black. "DIED RATHER THAN BETRAY YOUR FRIENDS, AS WE WOULD HAVE DONE FOR YOU!”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!”
― Audrey Hepburn

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.”
― Robert Frost

“These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.”
― Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

“If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.”
― Robert Frost

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
― Robert Frost

“Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.”
― Robert Frost

“Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”
― Robert Frost

“I am not a teacher, but an awakener.”
― Robert Frost

“A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.”
― Robert Frost

“The rain to the wind said,
You push and I'll pelt.'
They so smote the garden bed
That the flowers actually knelt,
And lay lodged--though not dead.
I know how the flowers felt.”
― Robert Frost

“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”
― Robert Frost

“A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.”
― Robert Frost

“The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.”
― Robert Frost

“Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.”
― Robert Frost

“The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.”
― Robert Frost

“A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.”
― Robert Frost

“Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.”
― Robert Frost

“Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.”
― Robert Frost

“And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.”
― Robert Frost

“How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?”
― Robert Frost

“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.”
― Robert Frost