{"author":"Hillary DePiano","author_id":"Hillary+DePiano","total_quotes":17,"quotes":[{"text":"MOTHER TIME: Life goes by so very fast, my dears, and taking the time to reflect, even once a year, slows things down. We zoom past so many seconds, minutes, hours, killing them with the frantic way we live that it's important we take at least this one collective sigh and stop, take stock, and acknowledge our place in time before diving back into the melee. Midnight on New Year's Eve is a unique kind of magic where, just for a moment, the past and the future exist at once in the present. Whether we're aware of it or not, as we countdown together to it, we're sharing the burden of our history and committing to the promise of tomorrow.","author":"Hillary DePiano","tags":["being-busy","busy","goals","holiday","life","magic","midnight","new-year","new-year-s","new-year-s-eve","new-year-s-resolutions","new-years","new-years-eve","resolutions","slowing-down","taking-stock","the-past","the-present","time","tomorrow","tradition","traditions","yesterday"],"id":21103,"author_id":"Hillary+DePiano"},{"text":"MURRY: It's not that, it's just… I don't really get it. I usually find myself staring at the midnight deadline filled with regrets both for opportunities and loved ones missed. It's another day closer to the end. The last thing I feel like doing is counting down to some wild celebration. It just seems so sad to say goodbye to a year and know that it’s gone forever and you can’t go back to it. Not to relive, not to correct.NOEL: I've never thought about it that way.MURRY: There's something so final about it. It's the period at the end of the sentence.NOEL: The New Year's resolution.","author":"Hillary DePiano","tags":["goals","holiday","new-year","new-year-s","new-year-s-eve","new-year-s-resolutions","new-years","new-years-eve","resolutions","tradition","traditions"],"id":37947,"author_id":"Hillary+DePiano"},{"text":"MURRY: Why do we even celebrate the New Year? It's just this arbitrary quirk of how we measure time in years, right? Midnight tonight is the very same transition from day to day that we do every 24 hours. But this thing in my hands, it feels real in a way the numbered calendar box never does. Why? What makes midnight tonight any different?","author":"Hillary DePiano","tags":["goals","holiday","midnight","new-year","new-year-s","new-year-s-eve","new-year-s-resolutions","new-years","new-years-eve","resolutions","tradition","traditions"],"id":53574,"author_id":"Hillary+DePiano"},{"text":"It's like a fairy tale. . . On crack!","author":"Hillary DePiano","tags":["comedy","fairy-tale","humor"],"id":91093,"author_id":"Hillary+DePiano"},{"text":"NOEL: You can get excited about the future. The past won't mind.","author":"Hillary DePiano","tags":["future","holiday","new-year","new-year-s","new-year-s-eve","new-year-s-resolutions","new-years","new-years-eve","past","regrets"],"id":102043,"author_id":"Hillary+DePiano"},{"text":"There is no greater power than that of a laugh and happiness is a force which can save a person from the horrors of the world.","author":"Hillary DePiano","tags":["comedy","happiness","laughter"],"id":143820,"author_id":"Hillary+DePiano"},{"text":"MOTHER TIME: We all get the exact same 365 days. The only difference is what we do with them.","author":"Hillary DePiano","tags":["goals","holiday","inspirational","new-year","new-year-s","new-year-s-eve","new-year-s-resolutions","new-years","new-years-eve","resolutions","tradition","traditions","year"],"id":200410,"author_id":"Hillary+DePiano"},{"text":"Well, what do you know? Fakespeare!","author":"Hillary DePiano","tags":["comedy","commedia","parody","shakespeare","the-love-of-three-oranges"],"id":200589,"author_id":"Hillary+DePiano"},{"text":"CREONTA: Rope! My rope! Hang those two thieves by the neck until they are dead.THE ROPE: Alack, but vile and ill-natured female! Upon wherein did thine affections tarry when I didst but lie here and rot for many a year? Nay, but those fellows tooketh care to remove the wetness that didst plagueth me of late and hath laid me upon the cool ground to revel in a state of dryness. Nay, I wouldst not delay them in their noble course for all thine base and bestial howling.CREONTA: Then, you, dearest donkey, precious beast of burden, tear those two apart and eat their flesh!DONKEY: Nay, but alas for many a season didst you but keep the food of the tummy from me and my mouth when it was that I required it of you. These fine gentlemen of fortune didst but give me carrots of which to partake which I did most verily and forthsoothe with merriment. I havest decided that thou dost suck most verily and no longer will I layth the smackth down in thine name but will rather let such gentlemen as these go free of themselves. TRUFFALDINO: [To the audience.] Well, what do you know? Fakespeare!","author":"Hillary DePiano","tags":["comedy","humor","parody","shakespeare","the-love-of-three-oranges"],"id":216281,"author_id":"Hillary+DePiano"},{"text":"I really don’t get this whole oranges thing. It’s like, does he want to eat them or go out with them?","author":"Hillary DePiano","tags":["comedy","love","oranges"],"id":225287,"author_id":"Hillary+DePiano"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":17,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}