"It is a campaign not for abundance but for austerity. It is a campaign not for more freedom but for less. Strangest of all, it is a campaign not just against other people, but against ourselves."

-- George Monbiot

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“I only really cast people who are desperate to be in it - who were dying to be in it, whose talent I believed in and were dead ready to do the work that was necessary.”
“So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?”

Source : Anthony Doerr (2014). “All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel”, p.48, Simon and Schuster
“He, who loves praise, loves temptation.”
“I'm kind of a crazy person about hand sanitizer. I carry the plain ones that smell like aloe, from Target or CVS.”
“Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.”

Source : Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov”, p.464, Vintage
“Never lose yourself on the stage. Always act in your own person, as an artist. The moment you lose yourself on the stage marks the departure from truly living your part and the beginning of exaggerated false acting. Therefore, no matter how much you act, how many parts you take, you should never allow yourself any exception to the rule of using your own feelings. To break that rule is the equivalent of killing the person you are portraying, because you deprive him of a palpitating, living, human soul, which is the real source of life for a part.”
“I always tell this story: When I started, the woman went to the store to buy a dress. She saw it in pink and red, and then she remembered that the husband, who is probably going to pay for the dress, loves it in pink. So she buys the pink. Today, the same woman goes to the store and remembers the husband likes pink, and she buys the red.”
“My sweet Lord, hallelujah. My, my Lord, hallelujah. My, my Lord, hare krishna.”

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