"As a novelist, your impulse is toward multiplicity: multiple voices, multiple perceptions, multiple nuances, the ambiguity in human communication. Fiction really is the ultimate home for that sense of ambiguity."

-- Pankaj Mishra

#Communication Quotes #Home Quotes #Voice Quotes

“Jack didnâ€™t fully get Jesus. Audrey tried to explain it, and he could repeat it back to her, word for word, but he still didnâ€™t comprehend most of it. The best he could gather was that Jesus lived long ago, told people to be nice, and they killed him for it. At the end, he asked who was Jesusâ€™ necromancer and if he was in the Bible, then Kaldar couldnâ€™t stop laughing and had to sit down.”
“Only in this world do we laugh: in hell, it won't be possible; and in heaven, it won't be proper.”
“I have my cards read every time I pass a tarot-reader booth. I would be so embarrassed to have one of those 900 numbers appear on my phone bill, because I don't know how I would explain it to my business manager. It would almost be like saying, Okay, I'm white trash.”
“The art of love is largely the art of persistence.”
“Creating relationship is the heart of acting. It is basic. It is essential.”

Source : Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.23, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“The worth of things can't be measured by what they cost but by what the cost you to get it, that if anything costs you your faith or your family, then the price is too high, and that there are some things that will never wear out.”
“Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy to imagine a future in which growing numbers of cities have their frail and long-neglected infrastructures knocked out by disasters and then are left to rot, their core services never repaired or rehabilitated.”
“A brand is a voice and a product is a souvenir.”

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