"If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts."

-- Karl Jaspers

#Attitude Quotes #Philosophy Quotes #Real Quotes

“I always just been a fan of the music... and the aesthetic only in an abstract sense.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Silence has a myriad of meanings. In the theater, silence is an absence of words, but never an absence of meaning.”

Source : Sanford Meisner, Dennis Longwell (2012). “Sanford Meisner on Acting”, p.29, Vintage
“It's a lie! I am not an anti-Semite. The World Jewish Congress supported me and said that I am not anti-Semitic.”
“Culture shock is often felt sharply at the borders between countries, but sometimes it doesn't hit fully until you've been in a place for a long time.”
“...HH Beard has perfected ...3 excellent (urine) cancer tests, all of proven accuracy of 95% or better..... in 1942 and onwards.”
“I'm always a little leery about doing shows where I'm not the headliner because when I first started playing in 1982 I opened for Missing Persons and got pelted for 45 minutes. After that, I made the decision to headline no matter what, even if I was playing to seven people. I wanted people to be there to see me.”
“Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh?" he whispered. "Yes, Piglet?" "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand. "I just wanted to be sure of you.”
“I try to give my work everything I've got, because when you're dead or you're out of the business or you're in an old actors' home somewhere, if you've done a good job, your work will still be 16 years old and dancing and healthy and pirouetting and arabesquing all over the place. And they'll say, "That's who he is! He's not this decaying skeleton."”

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