I loved the stage not because it provided an escape from myself or my humdrum life but because when the curtain went up I could be whoever I wanted to be, and that was true freedom - to be myself.
Jane Austen writes about these humdrum lives with such empathy that they seem endlessly fascinating
Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations.
it is the sum of small things successfully done that lifts a life out of bondage to the humdrum.
The prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that; and maybe sleeping beauty's dead.
Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry of life.