Academia
1. “Publish or perish.” (Eric Van Lustbader, The Ninja)
Actors
2. “The art of an actor is like a beggar’s bag and must contain everything.” (Lucia St. Clair Robson, Tokaido)
3. “Show business is fickle.” (Bethany Campbell, Hear No Evil)
4. “Any strong marked expression of face on the part of a chief actor in a scene of great interest to whom many eyes are directed, will be unconsciously imitated by the spectators.” (Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities)
Age
5. “Emotions are for the young; the elderly have no use for them.” (Anita Nair, Ladies Coupe)
6. “… one of the few joys of aging is learning to be less afraid of complexity.” (Dwight Atkinson, Contrasting Rhetorics / Contrasting Cultures)
7. “A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to; the long explanations needed by the young are wearying.” (J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers)
8. “Why do they have to grow sick and weak?” (Virginia Hamilton, The House of Dies Drear)
9. “… a man never or hardly ever does grow sad as he grows old; on the contrary, the most melancholy young lovers can be found forty years afterwards chuckling over their port wine.” (G.K. Chesterton, Introduction)
10. “Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?” (Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea)
