Almeida Theatre Quotes & Sayings

Defiance is like marijuana - it is not a bad thing when it is used right." The — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The vices of which we are full we carefully hide from others, and we flatter ourselves with the notion that they are small and trivial; we sometimes even embrace them as virtues. — John Calvin

Bare is back," says the Norse proverb, "without brother behind it;" and this is, by analogy, true of an elective magistracy. The hereditary ruler in any critical emergency may reckon on the inexhaustible resources of prestige, of sentiment, of superstition, of dependent interest, while the new man must slowly and painfully create all these out of the unwilling material around him, by superiority of character, by patient singleness of purpose, by sagacious presentiment of popular tendencies and instinctive sympathy with the national character. Mr. Lincoln's task was one of peculiar and exceptional difficulty. — James Russell Lowell

You are young," said my father. "You won't get any younger even if you clean your teeth twice a day."

"You'll get older," said my mother, "that's what happens."

"Then what happens?"

"You won't be able to find the treasure."

"Will I be too old to look for it?"

"No, but you'll be looking in the wrong place. — Jeanette Winterson

Sometimes when you have limited resources and you really have to think about creative ways to get around some of these problems, generally the end result is better. — Todd Lieberman

Like everyone I slipped into adulthood like a delinquent through the back door. — Charles Finch

The thing about patience, I mean real patience, is that it is most needed when there is something you really want to see happen. That's patience. — Art Hochberg

We've all done things we'd rather keep in the dark. It's only by shedding light on them that our demons can disappear. — Michelle Moran

People with high levels of self-confidence have the right view of failure, understanding that they are temporary in nature, and mostly transient. They understand that failure not only builds character, but also resilience. People with a low level of self-confidence view failure as fatal, and it stops them dead in their tracks. — Charles Lamont