"I've always been interested in foreign relations. It's my belief that study of history should be our preparation for understanding the present rather than an escape from it."

-- Elizabeth Kostova

#Understanding Quotes #Preparation Quotes #Belief Quotes

“The state is in danger of falling into disrepute due to the evidence of its inadequate resources.”
“A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about.”
“In fact, when we as neuro-typical people encounter a person with autism spectrum syndrome who's always been that way it is that we have to adjust. Just because we can read people with autism correctly, whatever that word is why do we always default to saying, 'Well, that kid is not normal?' What is normal?”
“There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted.”
“Every scene you will ever act begins in the middle, and it is up to you, the actor, to provide what comes before.”

Source : Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.48, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“the lesson of the falling leaves the leaves believe such letting go is love such love is faith such faith is grace such grace is god i agree with the leaves”

Source : Lucille Clifton (1974). “An ordinary woman”
“It was hard telling those kids...that I wasn't going to be there this year. And I knew I was going to miss them. I won't have an opportunity to see them again, unless they stop by the house. Now during the summer, I got lots of notes; kids would stop by the house. I'd be pulling weeds or something and they would come up and give me a hug and say, 'Oh, I can't believe it, this is so wonderful!' and just get very excited about it. It was hard not being in school. I would have loved to have gone back to school.”
“The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate a fortune very well when he is sick.”

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