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Jun 15

"I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane."

Jun 15

"I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and it's pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living."

Jun 15, 2026

"Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant."

Jun 15

On June 15, 1955, when the Civil Defense Administration attempted to hold a drill simulating a nuclear attack, 27 activists in New York refused to take cover. They handed out pamphlets reading:

We will not obey this order to pretend, to evacuate, to hide. In view of the certain knowledge the administration of this country has that there is no defense in atomic warfare, we know this drill to be a military act in a cold war to instill fear, to prepare the collective mind for war. We refuse to cooperate

Jun 15

"The oddest thing about this whole funny-business is that the public really wants to laugh, but it's the hardest thing to make them do it."

Jun 13

"Never regret anything you have done with a sincere

affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart. "

Jun 13

"Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy. "

Happy Birthday, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

Alfred Sisley (1839-1899)

Jun 13

Happy Birthday, Doc Cheatham (1905-1997)

Mona Hinton, Ike Quebec, Doc Cheatham, Mario Bauza and Shad Collins, on tour in Alabama in 1949.

Jun 12

Happy Birthday, Egon Schiele (1890-1918)

Jun 11

"Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay."

Happy Birthday, William Styron (1925-2006)

Jun 11

"What good is a character who's always winking at the audience to let them in on the secret?"

Jun 10

"Behind every cloud is another cloud."