"I personally take cues directly from the script, then I like to surprise the other actors. But you must maintain control on a level and see how far you can go up, down or out emotionally. You have to balance the craft with spontaneity."

-- Lusia Strus

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“I apologize if anybody was offended by anything I said.”
“False encouragement is a kind of theft: it steals time, energy, and motivation a person could put toward some other purpose.”

Source : Sam Harris (2013). “Lying”, p.17, Four Elephants Press
“If you don't dance, for heaven's sake, you cannot aspire. You do not lift up from this earth.”
“I can conceive of nothing worse than a man-governed world -- except a woman-governed world.”
“The role of the intellectual, so it is said, is to speak truth to power. Noam Chomsky has dismissed this pious tag on two grounds. For one thing, power knows the truth already; it is just busy trying to conceal it. For another, it is not those in power who need the truth, but those they oppress.”
“In the first few pages, Kundera discusses several abstract historical figures: Robespierre, Nietzsche, Hitler. For Eunice's sake, I wanted him to get to the plot, to introduce actual "living" characters - I recalled this was a love story - and to leave the world of ideas behind. Here we were, two people lying in bed, Eunice's worried head propped on my collarbone, and I wanted us to feel something in common. I wanted this complex language, this surge of intellect, to be processed into love. Isn't that how they used to do it a century ago, people reading poetry to one another?”
“Truth is aÂ hellÂ of a big point with me. Now IÂ exaggerateâ€”always.”
“Courage must come from the soul within; the man must furnish the will to win. So figure it out for yourself, my lad. You were born with all that the great have had.”

Source : Edgar Albert Guest, “Figure It Out”

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