"Then if the actor comes up with, "It's more logical to do this," I just change it [a scene] on the spot."

-- Matthijs van Heijningen, Jr.

#Actors Quotes #Logical Quotes #Scene Quotes

“It's how we spend ourselves - not our money - that makes us rich.”
“Oh, yes. I mean to marry him. But not because I want him to give me a life. I want to marry him to share the life I already have. The difference, I think you will find, is a significant one.”

Source : Deanna Raybourn (2015). “Silent on the Moor”, p.119, MIRA
“When I want to show the kind of meanness people are capable of, to make it believable I find I have to tone it down. It's in real life that people are over the top.”

Source : Interview with Sigrid Nunez, www.believermag.com. February 2005.
“Our young men are going into the professional fields because they don't 'feel called' to the mission field. We don't need a call; we need a kick in the pants. We must begin thinking in terms of 'going out,' and stop our weeping because 'they won't come in.' Who wants to step into an igloo? The tombs themselves are not colder than the churches. May God send us forth.”
“True education is a kind of never ending story â€” a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness.”
“It's false. There is absolutely no evidence that extreme weather events are on the increase. None. The argument that more and more dollar damages accrue is a reflection of the greater amount of wealth we've created.”
“Social satire has been around since people have been around.”
“Virtues are dispositions not only to act in particular ways, but also to feel in particular ways. To act virtuously is not, as Kant was later to think, to act against inclination; it is to act from inclination formed by the cultivation of the virtues.”

Source : Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.175, A&C Black

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