"If I speak with a character’s voice it is because that character’s become so much part of me that … I think I have the right then to imagine myself into the skin, into the life, into the dreams, into the experience of the particular character that I’ve chosen."

-- AndrÃ© Brink

#Dream Quotes #Character Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief”
“It is true that we shall not be able to reach perfection, but in our struggle toward it we shall strengthen our characters and give stability to our ideas, so that, whilst ever advancing calmly in the same direction, we shall be rendered capable of applying the faculties with which we have been gifted to the best possible account.”
“Each of us, Leonard Read said, must become candles of liberty in the darkness of collectivist ideas. The brighter we each shine through our understanding and ability to articulate the meaning of freedom, the more we will be beacons that can attract others.”

Source : Robert D. Mcteer, Jr., Richard M. Ebeling, Paul Hollander, John Stelle Gordon, J. Kenneth Balckwell (2005). “The Conditions of Free Market Capitalism”
“I didn't learn fire-eating to conquer my fears. I learned fire-eating because I desperately wanted to be in show business.”
“It was a chance meeting with a lady at Mariah Carey's record company who was here in our office, actually. And I pulled her in here to this very office that we're sitting in now, and I played her the clip of me and George Michael singing. And I was like, it's joyful. And that's what people want.”

Source : "James Corden Conquers YouTube With 'Carpool Karaoke'". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. March 8, 2016.
“The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.”

Source : "Reasons to De-Test the Schools". The New York Times, October 11, 1988.
“Paradoxical as it may seem, the purposeful life has no content, no point. It hurries on and on, and misses everything. Not hurrying, the purposeless life misses nothing, for it is only when there is no goal and no rush that the human senses are fully open to receive the world.”
“As human beings, what makes us able to empathize with people is a connection that is not necessarily understood mentally.”

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