2010

May 22 -- THE BIBLE SALESMAN @ Learned Place House Concert Series, Durham, NC -- with Clyde Edgerton

NOTABLE, QUOTABLE:

"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds, nineteen shillings and sixpence, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds and sixpence, result misery." Charles Dickens, DAVID COPPERFIELD

“Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backward.” Søren Kierkegaard

"God preserve us from generalizations. There are a great many opinions in this world, and a good half of them are professed by people who have never been in trouble." --- Anton Chekhov

"They use 'em to save money on horses and riders and ammunition. Why, you take Gene Autry and lean him up against a tree with his guitar and let him sing three songs and you can fill up a whole reel without spendin' any money." --- actor Buck Jones on using songs in western movies

"I distrust a man who says 'when.' If he's got to be careful not to drink too much, it's because he's not to be trusted when he does." --- Sydney Greenstreet to Humphrey Bogart in THE MALTESE FALCON

"You must be a masochist to work in the theater and a sadist to succeed on its stages."
--- Larry Kramer

"Have you ever seen moonlight on the Wabash as the diesel rigs boom by? Have you ever wondered how the moonlit continent might look through the tearless and unblinking distance of God’s wide eye?" --- Robert Penn Warren

"The best way to find out about a man is to have lunch with his ex-wife." --- Shelley Winters

"In Hollywood you got work around you all the time. You can't get a taxi without that the driver hands you a script. Where I live [in Sweden] people still read books that can't be made into film."
--- Stellan Skarsgård

"It's a great life if you don't weaken!"
--- Ralph Richardson in THE FALLEN IDOL

""If I had my way, all actors over 55 would be issued a 3-lb. wet salmon with which to slap the face of every young, beautiful, successful upstart. 'That's for being so lucky, you bastard!' I would shout. And then, hit them again, if you can."
--- Richard Griffiths, British actor