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Upon your arrival at The Queens Studio, you
will be warmly greeted by Audrey,
our rescued
Shakespearean dachshund.
Audrey hails from Lake
Ariel (yes, as in The Tempest)
Pennsylvania
and bears her body in most unseemly
affection like her
Shakespearean namesake (in
As You Like It).
She is the embodiment of
the playful spirit and philosophy of The Queens
Studio:
“Dogs invite us not only to share their joy
but also to live in the moment, where we are
neither proceeding from nor moving toward, where
the enchantment of the past and future cannot
distract us, where a freedom from practical
desire and a cessation of our usual ceaseless
activity allows us to recognize the truth of our
existence, the reality of our world and
purpose--if we dare.”
- Dean Koontz
“I've come to believe that each of us has a
personal calling that's as unique as a
fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed
is to discover what you love and then find a way
to offer it to others in the form of service,
working hard, and also allowing the energy of
the universe to lead you… Dogs are my favorite
role models. I want to work like a dog, doing
what I was born to do with joy and purpose. I
want to play like a dog, with total, jolly
abandon. I want to love like a dog, with
unabashed devotion and complete lack of concern
about what people do for a living, how much
money they have, or how much they weigh… Think
like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail.
Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.”
- Oprah Winfrey
"In retrospect, I suppose the biggest risk I
ever took was giving up my good job in order to
go to drama school at the age of 27. At the time
I didn't regard it as a risk. It was simply
something that I had to do, or I would spend the
rest of my life wondering. Thinking about it
now, I suppose I was more likely to fail than to
succeed in this business, but whoever it was who
said 'it's better to have tried and failed than
never to have tried at all' got it right."
- Brenda Blethyn
"You do the jobs you're suppose to do and if
you're in the right place at the right time, the
right thing will happen. You get found when it's
time for you to be found."
- Samuel L. Jackson
“Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail
at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The
only people who never tumble are those who never
mount the high wire.”
- Oprah Winfrey
"We are not interested in the possibilities of
defeat. They do not exist…Great events make me
quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate
my nerves… The important thing is not what
others think of me, but what I think of them."
- Queen Victoria
“An artist never fails - It is a success just to
be one.”
- Charles W. Cooley
"The Queen would venture to warn against too
great intimacy with artists as it is very
seductive and a little dangerous."
- Queen Victoria
“Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!--
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.
Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way;
But to act, that each to-morrow
Find us farther than to-day.”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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