"A sovereign's great example forms a people; the public breast is noble or vile as he inspires it."

-- David Mallet

#People Quotes #Inspire Quotes #Noble Quotes

“I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.”
“Highly developed spirits often encounter resistance from mediocre minds.”
“The work of television is to establish false contexts and to chronicle the unraveling of existing contexts; finally, to establish the context of no-context and to chronicle it.”

Source : George W. S. Trow (1981). “Within the Context of No Context”, p.82, Atlantic Monthly Press
“I don't think any movie I would do would be too serious or serious at all.”
“Everyone's doing the best they can with the tools they were given.”

Source : "Jaime Murray: Taking Care of Heart, Mind, and Body". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“Elegance and beauty have been banished.”
“History is for human self-knowledge. Knowing yourself means knowing, first, what it is to be a person; secondly, knowing what it is to be the kind of person you are; and thirdly, knowing what it is to be the person you are and nobody else is. Knowing yourself means knowing what you can do; and since nobody knows what they can do until they try, the only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value of history, then, is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.”
“And when I first came out from New York, I hadn't driven in a long time. Now I'm like Joe Speedster.”

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