"To recognize that some of the things our culture believes are not true imposes on us the duty of finding out which are true and which are not."

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Source : "Giants and Dwarfs". Book by Allan Bloom. Chapter: "Western Civ," p. 22, 1990.

Allan Bloom

#Believe Quotes #Culture Quotes #Duty Quotes

“The way you write dialogue is the same whether you're writing for movies or TV or games. We use movie scriptwriting software to write the screenplays for our games, but naturally we have things in the script that you would never have in a movie script -- different branches and optional dialogue, for example. But still, when it comes to storytelling and dialogue, they are very much the same.”

Source : "Alan Wake writer Sam Lake on the creative process. Part one". Interview with Keith Stuart, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2010.
“Heading to Paris when I was 17 and modelling exposed me to high fashion, which influenced me to dress on-trend - not extravagantly, but always in fashion.”
“Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon by the whole society.”

Source : Lawrence Kohlberg (1973). “Collected papers on moral development and moral education”
“I once asked Barbara Stanwyck the secret of acting. She said: 'Just be truthful - and if you can fake that, you've got it made'.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Nothing is worse for me, as an actor, than when I walk on a set and the director goes, "Okay, you're going to be standing here, the other person is going to be standing here, and you're going to move to there and then do the scene." That doesn't help actors.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.”

Source : "Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.
“I have assigned many of my father's basses to students, without endangering their lives. Also, they do no harm to the fingers.”
“Writing is like praying, because you stop all other activities, descend into silence, and listen patiently to the depths of your soul, waiting for true words to come. When they do, you thank God because you know the words are a gift, and you write them down as honestly and cleanly as you can.”

Source : Helen Prejean (2006). “The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions”, p.195, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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