{"quotes":[{"text":"Actors and actresses make magic,' I said. 'They make things happen on the stage; they invent; they create.","author":"Anne Rice","tags":["acting","actors","actresses","anne-rice","create","creative","lestat-de-lioncourt","magic","stage","the-vampire-chronicles","the-vampire-lestat","theater"],"id":1527,"author_id":"Anne+Rice"},{"text":"My friends joke that I’m dead until I get onstage. I’m dead right now as you’re speaking to me.","author":"Lady Gaga","tags":["concerts","lady-gaga","music","stage"],"id":2821,"author_id":"Lady+Gaga"},{"text":"Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","adolescent","adolescents","adult","adulthood","adults","africa","african","ancient","aphorism","aphorisms","axiom","axioms","child","children","dead","death","deep","dependence","dependent","develop","developing","development","dictum","dictums","epigram","epigrams","existence","four-stages-of-life","funny","gnome","gnomes","grandparent","grandparents","grow","growing","growth","humor","humorous","humour","immortal","immortality","independence","independent","infant","infants","insightful","life","made-me-think","make-you-think","maxim","maxims","mortal","mortality","newborn","newborns","old","old-age","old-age-home","old-age-homes","phase","phases","philosopher","prepubescent","process","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","of-the-day","quotes","retire","retired","retiree","retirees","retirement","satire","satirical","satirist","satirists","saying","sayings","senile","senility","south-africa","south-african","stage","stages","stages-of-life","teenage","teenager","teenagers","thought-provoking","thoughtful","young","youth","youths"],"id":6452,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Why do people feel better when they blame someone? I don’t know. Maybe it just feels better to be angry than to be sad.","author":"Kate McGahan","tags":["anger","bereavement","blame","feel","grief","guilt","loss","process","stage","strength"],"id":10234,"author_id":"Kate+McGahan"},{"text":"Happiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shakespeare?","author":"Jennifer Donnelly","tags":["acting","paris","revolution","shakespeare","stage","theater"],"id":24047,"author_id":"Jennifer+Donnelly"},{"text":"No matter how you were taught by your teacher about how to recite a poem, it is impossible to wear your teacher's smiling face to the stage. You got to put on that smile.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["do-it","do-it-yourself","face","food-for-thought","impossible","israelmore-ayivor","keep-smiling","lecture","lecturer","poem","pretty-face","recite","smile","smiling","smiling-face","stage","taught","teach","teacher","wear","you-can","you-can-do-it"],"id":32446,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"We are all actors, set on the stage of the world, as the curtains open we put on our best performance to this audience of life.","author":"Anthony Liccione","tags":["actors","audience","award","curtains","decieve","ego","fake","fooling-yourself","liars","performance","pride","stage","thinking-your-better","world"],"id":33665,"author_id":"Anthony+Liccione"},{"text":"I have seen so many lands vanish in my wake, torn down like stage sets. What survives of them? An image as fleeting as a dream: whatever beauties I discovered, I already knew by heart.","author":"Gérard de Nerval","tags":["beauties","dream","heart","lands","stage"],"id":47257,"author_id":"G%C3%A9rard+de+Nerval"},{"text":"When my turn on the program comes, I am not nervous at all—because all this is happening out of time, out of space. I am, for a moment, a figure of my own fantasy, and I play my appointed role as if I were in the movies.","author":"Eva Hoffman","tags":["acting","fantasy","imagination","introspection","mask","mirror","persona","reality","self","self-awareness","self-presentation","stage"],"id":54484,"author_id":"Eva+Hoffman"},{"text":"One interesting thing is that a stage is reached when nothing hurts any more. Things cannot become any worse, finally, for the one who is really depressed.","author":"Patricia Highsmith","tags":["depressed","depression","hurt","hurts","stage","worse"],"id":62659,"author_id":"Patricia+Highsmith"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":68,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}