"I have to say my background was mostly theatre, which I love, and it took a long time to feel comfortable there. That's probably true of anyone's career."

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Source : "Interview with Ann Dowd, Star of ‘Compliance’". www.indiewire.com. August 17, 2012.

Ann Dowd

#Careers Quotes #Long Quotes #Theatre Quotes

“True happiness is when the love that is within us finds expression in external activities.”
“Weâ€™re constantly changing facts, rewriting history to make things easier, to make them fit in with our preferred version of events. We do it automatically. We invent memories. Without thinking. If we tell ourselves something happened often enough we start to believe it, and then we can actually remember it.”
“It seems to me that the poet has only to perceive that which others do not perceive, to look deeper than others look. And the mathematician must do the same thing.”
“Man is a thinking being; what and how we think largely determines what we are and what we will become.”
“Whenever it poured like this, Max felt as if time was pausing. It was like a cease-fire during which you could stop whatever you were doing and just stand by a window for hours, watching the performance, an endless curtain of tears falling from heaven.”
“No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them.”

Source : William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.48
“I enjoy the risk of bungee-jumping. I used to pay money to do it. Now, it's the opposite. I get paid to do action.”
“The reward of running â€” of anything â€” lies within us â€¦ We focus on something external to motivate us, but we need to remember that itâ€™s the process of reaching for that prize â€” not the prize itself â€” that can bring us peace and joy.”

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