"The beginner should not be discouraged if he finds he does not have the prerequisites for reading the prerequisites."

-- Paul Halmos

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“One of the biggest misconceptions about me is that I'm a comedian, which I'm not. A comedian is someone who can stand up in front of an audience and make you laugh. I've never done stand-up and I never will. I'm a comic actor. My comedy comes through my characters.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You can't create a new reality with the same personality.”
“It's always obvious to me when someone is looking at me with an idea of who I am and hoping that that's the person I'm going to be. No matter how subtle it is, it's there, and you want to give them who they really want. But it ain't me.”
“I don't feel I was ever a 'famous' child actor. I was just a working actor who happened to be a kid. I was never really in a hit show until I was a teenager with West Wing playing First Daughter Zoey Bartlet. In a way, that was my saving grace - not being a star on a hit show. It kept me working and kept me grounded.”

Source : Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com.
“There were shadows galore in the dim light, but there was one shadow that did not correspond to any object in the room. It lurked next to the fireplace, a formless, undulating darkness.”

Source : Bentley Little (2012). “The Haunted”, p.249, Penguin
“People who are following their dreams inspire me. I train at this relatively new gym in West Hollywood called Training Mate. It's owned by a former Australian football player named Luke Milton. The classes are mostly taught by other Australians that are just like Luke: fit, funny, cute, and approachable. Now they're talking about opening another location. He will open another location and be successful because he's following his dream. People like him inspire me because they make me think I can do it too.”
“Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.”
“Architecture begins where engineering ends.”

Source : Speech at Harvard Department of Architecture. "Architects on Architecture". Book by Paul Heyer, 1966.

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