"At an early age, you started hearing it: It's a virtue to be "well-rounded." ... They might as well have said : Become as dull as you possibly can be."

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Source : Donald O. Clifton, Al Winseman, Curt Liesveld (2004). “Living Your Strengths”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

Donald O. Clifton

#Age Quotes #Dull Quotes #Might Quotes

“That's not a prediction, that's a spoiler.”
“Living's heavy work, but off to one side, the way we are, it's useless, too. It don't make sense. If I knowed how to climb back on the wheel, I'd do it in a minute. You can't have living without dying. So you can't call it living, what we got. We just are, we just be, like rocks beside the road.”

Source : "Tuck Everlasting". Book by Natalie Babbitt, www.npr.org. 1975.
“What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind.”
“I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.”
“I approach every role from scratch.”

Source : "Paul Dano on Dream Girl Zoe Kazan Coming to Life in Ruby Sparks". Interview with Karen Kemmerle, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 26, 2012.
“I'm proud to be an atheist - it helps me stand for so much more and fall for so much less.”
“I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead.”
“I guess every actor has certain emotions they can access easier than others.”

Source : "William Mapother Exclusive Interview ANOTHER EARTH". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 19, 2011.

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