"Things happen the way they happen because the world is the way it is."

-- Ann Leckie

#World Quotes #Way Quotes #Happens Quotes

“A lot of young actors have the idea that, "I've got to do this right. There's a right way to do this." But there's no right or wrong. There's only good and bad. And "bad" usually happens when you're trying too hard to do it right. There's a very broad spectrum of things that can inhibit you. The most important thing for actors - and not just actors, but everybody - is to feel loose enough to create what you want to create, and be free to try anything. To have choices.”
“Too many people seem to believe that silence was a void that needed to be filled, even if nothing important was said.”
“Adolescence can be a time of turmoil and turbulence, of stress and storm. Rebellion against authority and against convention is to be expected and tolerated for the sake of learning and growth.”
“Enthusiasm: If you donâ€™t FEEL enthusiastic, ACT enthusiastic. Soon, youâ€™ll BE enthusiastic. Double your enthusiasm and youâ€™ll probably double your income.”
“Funny how gentle people get with you once you're dead.”

Source : "Fictional character: Joe Gillis". "Sunset Boulevard", www.imdb.com. 1950.
“The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved.”
“The church must never become a government factory, carrying on a nationalized industry of religion with the people as the bolts and nuts; with God reduced to the role of cramped advocate of current national policy. Surely the pages of history are replete and the examples in many a foreign country convincing that this kind of church-state union-whatever the original motives, or however noble the original purposes-winds up with a state that is less than stable and a church that is less than sanctified, and with the poor still hungry.”
“[Henry] James is much more complex than Jane Austen. That's why it's not so easy to adapt him. People expect a nice period piece, but that's not always the case. There's a deep human mystery in his work.”

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