Quotes
Authors
James Pearse Connelly
"If you look around anywhere, layers are an important part of, not just the story and the concept, but the world you're in. If you just turn around and look at your office door, there's a door, and there's something behind it." --
Source : "What goes into designing The Biggest Loser's sets, stages, and chill rooms?". Interview with AVC, tv.avclub.com. June 27, 2016.
James Pearse Connelly
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“It was just one of those things," I said, "You know, that just happen. You don't think or plan. You just do it.”
“A marriage can go wrong at any time.”
“Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.”
Source : 1950 The Liberal Imagination, preface.
“Which is more subversive-and corrosive-to believe in altruism or to see it simply as a cloak of self interest? Even if altruism did not exist, it would be necessary to believe in it. Pessimists in power are prone to despotism.”
“To be a man, to have been born without knowing it or wanting it, to be thrown into the ocean of existence, to be obliged to swim, to exist; to have an identity; to resist the pressure and shocks from the outside and the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts - one's own and those of others - which so often exceed one's capacities? And what is more, to endure one's own thoughts about all this: in a word, to be human.”
“Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you like, it will not tell itself.”
Source : Djuna Barnes (2014). “Nightwood”, p.96, Faber & Faber
“Both love and democracy depend on voice -- having a voice and also the resonance that makes it possible to speak and be heard.”
“The number of choices you make in the event that you see on stage, those choices are sometimes largely determined by the rehearsal process and the experiments that you go through and the choices that you make in the rehearsal room, not in front of an audience.”