"Boredom is the specter that haunts children from kindergarten to graduation on every continent."

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Source : Amanda Ripley (2014). “The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

Amanda Ripley

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“I am a theatre actor, but the last ten years I've taken parts in movies because it keeps me in money.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us.”
“As a working actor, all I want to do is work. That's it. It's terrifying when you don't work. It's very hard when you don't work. There have been times when I've been out of work for like six months. I feel theatre to me is like manna.”
“Nobody sees the same movie. I'm sure there are people who saw Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and thought "Finally a gay movie about men who really care about each other. Thank God!" That's not what I saw necessarily but I don't think any two people see the same movie.”
“You know, I don't think, you know, therapy never ends, really.”

Source : "Amy Ryan Exclusive Interview WIN WIN; Also Talks IN TREATMENT and THE OFFICE". Interview with Ron Messer, collider.com. March 24, 2011.
“Teach him to live rather than to avoid death: life is not breath, but action, the use of our senses, our mind, our faculties, every part of ourselves which makes us conscious of our being. Life consists less in length of days than in the keen sense of living. A man maybe buried at a hundred and may never have lived at all. He would have fared better had he died young.”
“Let those who hanker after the past return to the past! Let those who want to leave the world leave the world! Let those who want to ascend to heaven do so! Let those whose souls want to leave their bodies expire quickly! The earth today should be inhabited by man with a firm hold on the present, a firm hold on the earth.”
“How sweet, the presence of Jesus to the longing, harassed soul! It is instant peace, and balm to every wound.”

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