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Also, however: “Art does not end with the end of art history.”

“Spell-check ruins my work,” she said. “It fixes all my slang and dialect into standard English.”

“Oh, roles scare me – the fear of abject failure. Judy Garland always said: ‘Every time I get on stage, they’re going to find out I don’t actually want to do it.’ And I kind of feel the same way.”

“Other people turn 90. I still think of myself as the youngest person at the party,” says the notoriously candid composer who was the beau of gay Paree 60 years ago. Other Ned-rageous bons mots: “Why would we live in the first place if we’re going to die?” “The woman across the street just threw her baby out the window.” “Are they paying royalties?”

“The mayor noted that the city is the single largest funder of the arts in America, and that since 2001, the city had committed $240 million to the redevelopment of Lincoln Center. For that campuswide project, Lincoln Center launched a capital campaign of $790 million, which is just $30 million shy of completion.”

Louis Hobson, who left a solid but stalling career on Broadway to return home to Seattle as artistic director of the city’s Balagan Theater: “The worst thing you can be in New York is just good. You have to take a risk and try to be brilliant or risk being terrible.”

“Jarrett’s bad behavior over the years has become the stuff of legend. This unpleasant history is widely documented, both informally (blogs, social media) and formally (San Francisco Examiner, New York Times, Le Monde of Paris).”

“Sufferers of Parkinson’s disease got lucky when Michael J. Fox became their poster boy.” Joe Nocera uses his New York Times Op-Ed column to praise the genuinely extraordinary effect the actor has had.

Following a six-decade career doing magic tricks, juggling and plate-spinning on three continents as well as teaching yoga in Dallas, Pallana was invited by two young screenwriters – Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson to be in their first film (Bottle Rocket). He went on to become a scene-stealing, widely beloved bit player in films and on television.

“Compared with most forty-nine-year-olds, or even most forty-nine-month-olds, Tiffany didn’t have much. She did leave a will, though. In it, she decreed that we, her family, could not have her body or attend her memorial service. ‘So put that in your pipe and smoke it,’ our mother would have said.”