"To close the empathetic gap, you really want to get the person emotionally identifying [with your subject and characters], and then when you do that, then you want sneak in a lesson about history and about politics and whatever else you might think about."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Fred D'Aguiar

#Character Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Sneak In Quotes

“there are no nationalities in heaven.”
“When you are plugged into you, anything is possible.”
“I don't want to see an experiment. Experiment at home - when you show up on stage, I want to see a result. I think a lot of improvisers, you'll see them some nights and they just stink, and they go, "Well, we're just improvising." Like that's a license to have a shitty night!”
“Now, the velocity of wave propagation can be seen, without the aid of any mathematical analysis, to depend on the elasticity of the medium and its density; for we can see that if a medium is highly elastic the disturbance would be propagated at a great speed.”

Source : "Light Waves and Their Uses". Book by Albert A. Michelson. Published by The University of Chicago Press, pp. 23-25, 1903.
“His Majesty the King requires that the Royal Chancellery in all written documents endeavor to write in clear, plain Swedish.”
“At best, most college presidents are running something that is somewhere between a faltering corporation and a hotel.”
“I remember my father had a sermon he used to preach when we were in Florida, in which he gave a reference to the Southern Cross-about the stars, the colors, in the Southern Cross, which thrilled me very much. I must have been around 5 years old. ... Now, it turns out that the Southern Cross itself does have one red star, together with three blue ones.”
“If we kill off the wild, then we are killing a part of our souls.”

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