"I am of opinion that national greatness is more for the advantage of private citizens, than any individual well-being coupled with public humiliation. A man may be personally ever so well off, and yet if his country be ruined he must be ruined with it; whereas a flourishing commonwealth always affords chances of salvation to unfortunate individuals."

-- Pericles

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“If the actor has a problem, I can just go in and fix it right away. I think it speeds up the process.”
“I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.”
“In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence.”

Source : "Interview: Gary Ross breathes his life into 'Pleasantville'". www.cnn.com. October 12, 1998.
“It's not a matter of whether or not someone's watching over you. It's just a question of their intentions.”
“The greatest danger that threatens us is neither heterodox thought nor orthodox thought, but the absence of thought.”

Source : "Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent". Book by Henry Steele Commager, 1954.
“You cannot begin to imagine the shock I had when I came down on the floor for the first time. First of all, there's this whole thing about playing sitcom comedy. I didn't want to do the sitcom thing, but I didn't know what else to do. I went slowly. We went through the week of rehearsal, then we got on the floor with the cameras, which I'm used to because of my experience in the old days. Then came camera day, with an audience, and it was stunning, enthralling, exciting and chaotic. I had never experienced anything like that before, as an actor. I was part minstrel, part actor.”
“Those to whom defense is not important will have the best seat in the game”
“I have crushed the cup of youth like a rose between my fingers but its nectar never warmed my weary heart.”

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