“I DON’T Desire
WANT REALISM,
I
WANT MAGIC!”
– Blanche DuBois, A Streetcar Named
“Love is stupid monkeys dancing in a slapstick hurricane.” – What If “It’s all messy: the hair. The bed. The words. The heart. Life.” – Goethe “Love’s all very well but in the hands of people it turns into soup.” – Once “It is both a blessing and a curse to feel everything so very deeply.” – David Jones
“I go to seek a great perhaps.” – Francois Rabelas “Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.” – The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
“Art is not what you see but what you make others see.” – Edgar Degas “We all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.” – John Lennon “Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.” – Edgar Allan Poe “She wasn’t doing anything that I could see, except standing there, leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.” – JD Salinger “You have great truths within you if only anyone would bother to look.” – The Little Prince “If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers.” – The Little Prince
“Excuse me while I kiss the sky.” – Jimi Hendrix “But those stories don’t mean anything when you’ve got no one to tell them to.” – Brandi Carlile “Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.” – Victor Hugo, Les Miserables “I’m gonna end up alone. I’m gonna be a single old lady, flashing people on the subway.” – Jessica Day, New Girl “I brake for birds, I rock a lot of polka dots, I have touched glitter in the last 24 hours. I spend my entire day talking to children, I find it fundamentally strange that you’re not a dessert person. That’s just weird and it freaks me out, and I’m sorry I don’t talk like Murphy Brown, and I hate your pant suit. I wish it had ribbons on it or something to make it just slightly cuter, and that doesn’t mean I’m not smart and tough and strong.” – Jessica Day, New Girl
“If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.” – Vincent Van Gogh
“I’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.” – The Ice Palace, F. Scott Fitzgerald “The terror of performing never goes away. Instead, you get very, very comfortable being terrified.” – Eric Whitacre “There's two sides to me, you see. There's the sleepy old side you love; an' there's a sort of energy-- the feelin' that makes me do wild things. That's the part of me that may be useful somewhere, that'll last when I'm not beautiful any more. “ – The Ice Palace, F. Scott Fitzgerald “It’s that thing when you’re with someone and you love them and they know it and they love you and you know it but it’s a party and you’re both talking to other people and you’re laughing and shining and you look across the room and catch each other’s eyes. But not because you’re possessive, or it’s precisely sexual, but because that is your person in this life and it’s funny and sad but only because this life will end and it’s this secret world that exists right there. In public. Unnoticed. That no one else knows about. It’s sort of like how they say that other dimensions exist all around us but we don’t have the ability to perceive them. That’s what I want out of a relationship. Or just life, I guess.” – Frances Ha “Les temps sont durs pour les reveurs.” – Amelie “I just miss how it felt standing next to you, wearing matching dresses before the world was big.” – Girlpool “The shadows bring the starlight” – Spring Awakening “It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing. It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive. It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain. I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it, or fade it, or fix it. I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own; if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, be realistic, remember the limitations of being human. It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself. If you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul. If you can be faithless and therefore trustworthy. I want to know if you can see Beauty even when it is not pretty every day. And if you can source your own life from its presence. I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand at the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, 'Yes.' It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone and do what needs to be done to feed the children. It doesn't interest me who you know or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the centre of the fire with me and not shrink back. It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.” – The Invitation, Oriah Mountain Dreamer
“Love, whether newly born or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, that it overflows upon the outward world.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter “We chase the melodies that seem to find us Until they’re finished songs and start to play When senseless acts of tragedy remind us That nothing here is promised, not one day. This show is proof that history remembers We lived through times when hate and fear seemed stronger; We rise and fall and light from dying embers, remembrances that hope and love last longer And love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love cannot be killed or swept aside. I sing Vanessa’s symphony, Eliza tells her story Now fill the world with music, love, and pride.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda “This could be the middle this could be the end this could be the start of the start this could be the instant that everything changes and you live out the love in your heart” – Dallas Clayton
“I think I’ll take today to do some thinking about who and how and what I want to be and if I find the answers in the flowers by the lake I think I’ll take the time to set them free” – Dallas Clayton “I think I'm sick, and I don't know if my ailment has a name. It's just me sitting and staring at the internet or the television for long periods of time, interspersed by trying to not do that and then lying about what I've been doing. And then I'll get so excited about something that the excitement overwhelms me and I can't sleep or do anything and I just am in love with everything but can't figure out how to make myself work in the world.” – Mistress America “I'll probably end up doing something depressing, but young.” – Mistress America “ ‘And now’, cried Max, ‘let the wild rumpus start!’ ” – Where the Wild Things Are “The fundamental thing that you've got to do is be in as many rooms as possible. Including your own. You have to be assisting, or interning, or building props, or ushering, seeing theater, talking with playwrights, and then making your own work wherever the hell you can make it, constantly. As much energy as you possibly have in your twenties, you should spend doing everything that you possibly can, and obviously working whatever jobs you need to so you can make a living to allow you to buy a roll of toilet paper that you use as a costume piece in whatever show you're doing in a closet. It's just about making work nonstop, whether it's yours or other people's, and then seeing work when you're not making." - Rachel Chavkin
“Youth is such a wonderful thing—it’s a shame that it is wasted on young people.” – George Bernard Shaw “That is a terrible thing—to know at last the one thing you want to do more than anything else, and to know that you can never, never do it because you weren’t born with the right combination of chemicals, or something. Of course, it doesn’t diminish the joy of doing what you can, but it makes you more fatalistic…” – Black Mountain College: Experiment in Art