"It is necessary now and then for a man to go away by himself and experience loneliness; to sit on a rock in the forest and to ask of himself, 'Who am I, and where have I been, and where am I going?'...If one is not careful, one allows diversions to take up one's time-the stuff of life"

-- Carl Sandburg

#Loneliness Quotes #Men Quotes #Rocks Quotes

“I say I'm not shy, but... Acting is a very vulnerable experience, and you've got to be really confident to put yourself out there to be judged.”
“Whatever a man loves he inevitably clings to, and in order not to lose it he rejects everything that keeps him from it. So he who loves God cultivates pure prayer, driving out every passion that keeps him from it. He who drives out self-love, the mother of the passions, will with God's help easily rid himself of the rest, such as anger, irritation, rancor and so on. But he who is dominated by self-love is overpowered by the other passions, even against his will. Self-love is the passion of attachment to the body.”
“No world is without sacrifices. But if we produce casualties, we would also sustain casualties of our own.”
“The bicycle kick is not easy to do.”
“Knowledge is power. In post-capitalism, power comes from transmitting information to make it productive, not hiding it.”
“Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics.”
“I think to be a rich and successful person in Roman society would be pretty fabulous. They had all of the comforts we want now - central heating, baths, medicine. If I could choose not to indulge in all the things they did I don't agree with, then I could be perfectly comfortable without a mobile phone, computer or anything.”
“The last couple of roles I missed out on went to Jennifer Hudson, Jessica Biel and Olivia Wilde.”

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