Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Tom Rachman: 'What the art world has done, it has been constantly been pushing the boundaries about what art can be. It's like expanding its territory.' Read More Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Tom Rachman: 'The strength of fiction is not in reading about yourself, but in reading about other people.' Read More Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Tom Rachman: 'My parents used to rent old movies - my whole childhood is in black and white - and it was my dream to make films.' Read More Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Tom Rachman: 'That's a paradox I've noticed, too: The news business held little romance for me, yet writing about it somehow stirred my affections.' Read More Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Tom Rachman: 'My own career started in New York at the 'Associated Press', a fast-paced news agency where we rarely had time for deep reporting.' Read More Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Tom Rachman: 'When I left Toronto and entered journalism in the late 1990s, I had many notions about the news business, nearly all of them wrong, as it turned out.' Read More Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Tom Rachman: 'Art doesn't spring from the muses alone, but from hard work.' Read More Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Tom Rachman: 'The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.' Read More Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Tom Rachman: 'I hadn't been a particularly precocious reader, but everybody else in my family was.' Read More Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Sarah Bernhardt: 'What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?' Read More Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Sarah Bernhardt: 'Each action of the actor on the stage should be the visible concomitant of his thoughts.' Read More Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Sarah Bernhardt: 'The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.' Read More Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Sarah Bernhardt: 'For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture.' Read More Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Sarah Bernhardt: 'Although all new ideas are born in France, they are not readily adopted there. It seems that they must first commence to prosper in a foreign country.' Read More Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Sarah Bernhardt: 'I have often been asked why I am so fond of playing male parts. As a matter of fact, it is not male parts, but male brains that I prefer.' Read More Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Sarah Bernhardt: 'The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear.' Read More Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Sarah Bernhardt: 'The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.' Read More Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Sarah Bernhardt: 'Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.' Read More Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Sarah Bernhardt: 'I do love cricket - it's so very English.' Read More Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Sarah Bernhardt: 'He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.' Read More Newer Posts Older Posts
Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Tom Rachman: 'What the art world has done, it has been constantly been pushing the boundaries about what art can be. It's like expanding its territory.' Read More
Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Tom Rachman: 'The strength of fiction is not in reading about yourself, but in reading about other people.' Read More
Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Tom Rachman: 'My parents used to rent old movies - my whole childhood is in black and white - and it was my dream to make films.' Read More
Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Tom Rachman: 'That's a paradox I've noticed, too: The news business held little romance for me, yet writing about it somehow stirred my affections.' Read More
Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Tom Rachman: 'My own career started in New York at the 'Associated Press', a fast-paced news agency where we rarely had time for deep reporting.' Read More
Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Tom Rachman: 'When I left Toronto and entered journalism in the late 1990s, I had many notions about the news business, nearly all of them wrong, as it turned out.' Read More
Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Tom Rachman: 'Art doesn't spring from the muses alone, but from hard work.' Read More
Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Tom Rachman: 'The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.' Read More
Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Tom Rachman: 'I hadn't been a particularly precocious reader, but everybody else in my family was.' Read More
Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Sarah Bernhardt: 'What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?' Read More
Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Sarah Bernhardt: 'Each action of the actor on the stage should be the visible concomitant of his thoughts.' Read More
Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Sarah Bernhardt: 'The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.' Read More
Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Sarah Bernhardt: 'For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture.' Read More
Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Sarah Bernhardt: 'Although all new ideas are born in France, they are not readily adopted there. It seems that they must first commence to prosper in a foreign country.' Read More
Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Sarah Bernhardt: 'I have often been asked why I am so fond of playing male parts. As a matter of fact, it is not male parts, but male brains that I prefer.' Read More
Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Sarah Bernhardt: 'The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear.' Read More
Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Sarah Bernhardt: 'The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.' Read More
Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Sarah Bernhardt: 'Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.' Read More
Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Sarah Bernhardt: 'I do love cricket - it's so very English.' Read More
Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Sarah Bernhardt: 'He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.' Read More