"The first thing I do when I read a part is see if I can identify emotionally with a character. If I make that connection, everything else is just working on knowing their life circumstances and manifesting those through practice and research."

-- Joshua Leonard

#Character Quotes #Practice Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“Private property in the instruments of production is an institutional device both for dispersing power and for securing effective organization of production. The only simple property system is that of a slave society with a single slave owner - which, significantly, is the limiting case of despotism and of monopoly. Departure from such a system is a fair measure of human progress.”

Source : Henry Calvert Simons (1948). “Economic Policy for a Free Society”
“Kim: Hey... There's a guy over there with a samurai sword. Scott: Really? Like a katana or a wakizashi or both?”
“You've got to find what you love and let it kill you. I don't think any of us should ever forget that.”

Source : "Did Charles Bukowski Really Say, 'Find What You Love and Let it Kill You?'" by Jef Rouner, www.houstonpress.com. July 16, 2013.
“A ***** Igbo girl's nipple can be used to crush diamond”
“I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.”
“Someone did us all a grave injustice by implying that mourning has a distinct beginning, middle, and end.”

Source : Hope Edelman (2014). “Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss, 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.6, Da Capo Press
“I have a theory that evolutionary biologists are more vain than particle physicists.”
“The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim.”

Source : Interview with Jack Schofield, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2002.

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