"I need to conduct myself differently in different communities. In my experience, the journalistic conventions - you know, I'm the reporter, you're the subject, the interviewee - actually tend to hold steady much more consistently in rural Africa than they do in the American inner city."

-- William Finnegan

#Cities Quotes #Community Quotes #Different Quotes

“I always find it funny when I watch actors talking about, 'I chose to do this part.' A lot of times it's 'you're lucky to get the job.' We're like, 'Thank you so much.”

Source : "Actress Lucy Punch". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. June 16, 2011.
“I am a Jane Austenite, and therefore slightly imbecile about Jane Austen. My fatuous expression, and airs of personal immunity-how ill they sit on the face, say,of a Stevensonian! But Jane Austen is so different. She is my favourite author! I read and reread, the mouth open and the mind closed. Shut up in measureless content, I greet her by the name of most kind hostess, while criticism slumbers.”
“We are reduced to asking others what we are. We never dare to ask ourselves.”
“Iâ€™m like the child who buries her head in the pillow so as not to see, the child who tells herself that light causes sadnessâ€””
“You can't shoot an idea.”
“For [people] to be like "So what it's like dealing with female characters who are completely disgusting?" I don't think they are - does that make me weird? I made a very intentional choice to not care about that stuff, and go like "I don't care about it, I'm just gonna tell my truth and see what happens."”
“The one profession where you can gain great eminence without ever being right.”
“Remain true to yourself and your philosophy.”

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