"I think actors are brave souls that have to use parts of themselves that I'm just not comfortable doing anymore."

-- Joe Mantello

#Thinking Quotes #Brave Quotes #Soul Quotes

“There have been days when I sought respite from my life, only to find myself calling every hour to check on it.”
“Life: a constellation of vital phenomenaâ€”organization, irritability, movement, growth, reproduction, adaptation.”
“The seventeenth century witnessed the birth of modern science as we know it today. This science was something new, based on a direct confrontation of nature by experiment and observation. But there was another feature of the new science-a dependence on numbers, on real numbers of actual experience.”

Source : I. Bernard Cohen (2006). “The Triumph of Numbers: How Counting Shaped Modern Life”, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company
“The official name of the project is 'Jewish Museum' but I have named it 'Between the Lines' because for me it is about two lines of thinking, organization and relationship. One is a straight line, but broken into many fragments, the other is a tortuous line, but continuing indefinitely.”
“It's a really common trap to want your life to live up to some standard that you believe in, and then you start to really examine those standards and realize they come not from experiences you've had, but things you've seen in movies, or feelings you've felt listening to pop songs, or ideas you've received from reading books. And not just happy things, but a lot of the time, sad things. It gets kind of depressing, when you see how movies and songs make these promises to us.”
“The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.”
“The people I've encountered who are really dangerous in my life don't go around with their fangs drawn - they are dangerous because of the way they interpret what's going on.”
“When you're getting ready, you finally reach a point where your clothes are right and your hair and makeup are right, and you're not comparing yourself to anyone. It's a really great moment. Then you get to the party and it's like, "Oh my god, I'm wearing the wrong thing! I'm garish!" or "I'm underdressed!"”

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