"When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies. It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I'd go home and act all the parts. It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor."

-- Al Pacino

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“Sometimes, when I have to learn the lines in German and French, it's that much more difficult because it doesn't just sink in automatically, organically. I have to memorize it. It's a tricky thing, as well, as when you improvise, sometimes you want to say something but you don't know how to put it. It's more difficult than in your mother tongue. It's a challenge but, at the age of fifteen, I put myself up for it and I was aware that it would be an obstacle and many times.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“If the art of gardening is at last to turn back from her extravagances and rest with her other sisters, it is, above everything, necessary to have clearly before you what you require . . . It is certainly tasteless and inconsistent to desire to encompass the world with a garden-wall, but very practicable and reasonable to make a garden . . . into a characteristic whole to the eye, heart, and nderstanding alike.”
“If airports can be seen as temples to travel, gateways to other worlds, then airport carpets are the vast prayer mats upon which we all genuflect.”

Source : Source: www.cnn.com
“The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image.”

Source : Charles W. Chesnutt (2008). “The Portable Charles W. Chesnutt”, p.377, Penguin
“When you don't have a seat at the table, you're on the menu, my friend Lee Saunders has said, and he is correct.”

Source : Source: www.politico.com
“I think I began getting really influenced by that whole punk scene around the age of 13 or 14-I went through that whole thing like the shaved head. I was always interested in what people called "the darker side," whatever that was, and the kind of look that you would see in the old horror films. So I let that become more of my persona.”
“Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.”
“I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort”

Source : Clarice Lispector (1986). “The Hour of the Star”, p.11, New Directions Publishing

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