"There being in the make of an English mind a certain gloom and eagerness, which carries to the sad extreme; religion to fanaticism; free-thinking to atheism; liberty to rebellion."

-- George Berkeley

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“The exercise of criticism always destroys for a time our sensibility to beauty by leading us to regard the work in relation to certain laws of construction. The eye turns from the charms of nature to fix itself upon the servile dexterity of art.”
“One of the great perks of being an actor is you're only as smart as the job you're in, you know, and you're only as informed as the job you're in, and you do become an expert, and you read all the books, but then there's a part of, like, you move on.”

Source : "Amy Ryan Interview Green Zone". Roundtable Interview, collider.com. March 10, 2010.
“Love as distinct from â€œbeing in loveâ€ is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit...”
“Renunciation is not about pushing something away, it is about letting go. It's facing the fact that certain things cause us pain, and they cause other people pain. Renunciation is a commitment to let go of things that create suffering. It is the intention to stop hurting ourselves and others.”
“What we're seeing now is not just a backlash against feminism. When you look at guys like [Jesse] Helms in the '80s or even Reagan and Bush, there was a real political backlash against feminism. This is different. This is a parodic recreation of the destruction of traditional masculinity. Look at these hollow men. Look at Steve Bannon who wears sweat pants, who doesn't shave. Or Yiannopoulos who is just a clown. This is toxic masculinity. It's new. To see it as a return to the past is a mistake. It's the breakdown of traditional masculinity, rather than its retrenchment.”
“People are only mean when they are threatened.”
“The women sit, getting colder and colder, on a seat getting harder and harder, watching oafs, getting muddier and muddier.”
“FOr a while, I'd never had the opportunity to prove on TV that I could play the piano.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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