"May the arm of the first member of Congress, who proposes a national religion, drop powerless from his shoulder; his tongue cleave to the roof of his mouth and all the people say amen."

-- Anne Royall

#People Quotes #Mouths Quotes #May Quotes

“I don't have 'gears.' I play one way. That's all I've ever known. I WILL.”
“My two boys were the same ages as the kids in the show. In real life or in between the breaks I was raising two kids off camera who were not unlike the two kids who were being paid to be my kids.”
“If we have system in which government is in a position to give large favor - it's human nature to try to get this favor - whether those people are large enterprises, or whether they're small businesses like farmers, or whether they're representatives of any other special group. The only way to prevent that is to force them to engage in competition one with the other.”
“I want hard stories, I demand them from myself. Hard stories are worth the difficulty. It seems to me the only way I have forgiven anything, understood anything, is through that process of opening up to my own terror and pain and reexamining it, re-creating it in the story, and making it something different, making it meaningful - even if the meaning is only in the act of the telling.”
“... when I left the stage door and sought my orientation among real people I was in a wilderness of unpredictables in an unchoreographed world.”
“Overregulation stifles creativity. It smothers innovation. It gives dinosaurs a veto over the future. It wastes the extraordinary opportunity for a democratic creativity that digital technology enables.”
“The Fundamentalist Religions simply seem to offer more hope for a brighter future than do the more liberal, humanistic ones.”
“So I built my entire career in the United States and that's why it feels like I'm an American actor.”

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

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