"So precious a talent as intellect never was given to be wrapt in a napkin and buried in the earth."

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Source : Sarah Grimke, Angelina Grimke (2015). “On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters”, p.96, Penguin

Angelina Grimke

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“I just really want to do stand-up and act in stuff that I like. And do stuff that makes me really happy.”
“I rarely do anything on the show by myself. I dont want it to be about me. Squatting in the sewer in San Francisco, its really hot, were up to our knees in a river of crap. Rats and cockroaches are all over. I would never, ever walk into that environment, except for the fact that the guy who does it every day is squatting next to me.”
“It's really important to me that the actors bring a lot of elements of the characters to the process so they own it, so it's personal to them, so it's not just me saying, "You stand here, you say this, you do this, you feel this." No, you bring it up from in here and then let's work with that.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in the crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.”

Source : The American Crisis, 19 Dec. 1776
“It must surely be a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit that even a small number of those men and women in the hell of the prison system survive it and hold on to their humanity.”
“As a director, if you know what you want, then it's not scary.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Life is like a movie, if you've sat through more than half of it and itâ€™s sucked every second so far, it probably isn't going to get great right at the end and make it all worthwhile. None should blame you for walking out early.”
“The vague torment of ... ambition.”

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