Ron Tatar has been an Austin actor for many years. He has been killed and questioned on Walker, Texas Ranger. Ron has been a hippie dad of Goth kids on MTV's Austin Stories. He got to play a monster and an actor in the award winning independent feature "The Attack of the Bat Monsters". Ron has done multiple characters voice acting in CD Rom games for Origin and Ionstorm and was a broadcaster for over 20 years. He can't wait to see what happens next. Contact Info: E-Mail Ron
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Acting On Inspiration
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August, 2003
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by Ron Tatar
Good words are something actors love. I have always liked finding quotes, thoughts and sayings and sharing them with people I thought might enjoy them. Each month I will share some words that have inspired me, given me understanding and helped me keep things in perspective when times were rocky.
Listen to the exhortation of the dawn!
Look to this day, for it is life,
The very life of life!
In its brief course lie all the verities
And all the realities of your existence:
The bliss of growth; the glory of action;
The splendor of beauty.
For yesterday is but a dream,
And tomorrow is only a vision.
But today well-lived makes every yesterday a dream
of happiness,
And every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well, therefore, to this day.
Such is the salutation of the dawn.
---Sanskrit hymn
"The game is supposed to be fun. If you have a bad day, don't worry about it. You can't expect to get a hit every game."
---Yogi Berra
Who dreams shall live! And if we do not dream
Then we shall build no Temple into Time.
Yon dust cloud, whirling slow against the sun,
Was yesterday's cathedral, stirred to gold
By heedless footsteps of a passing world.
The faiths of stone and steel are failed of proof.
The King who made religion of a Sword
Passes, and is forgotten in a day.
The crown he wore rots at a lily's root,
The rose unfurls her banners o'er his dust.
The dreamer dies, but never dies the dream,
Though Death shall call the whirlwind to his aid,
Enlist men's passions, trick their hearts with hate,
Still shall the Vision live! Say nevermore
That dreams are fragile things. What else endures
Of all this broken world save only dreams!
---Dana Burnet
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