"It's actually quite a good ethos for life: go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly you'll be okay."

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Source : "Not My Father's Son: A Family Memoir review - Alan Cumming recalls pain without self-pity" by Damian Barr, www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2014.

Alan Cumming

#Commitment Quotes #Ethos Quotes #Okay Quotes

“From the standpoint of education, genius means essentially 'giving birth to the joy in learning.' I'd like to suggest that this is the central task of all educators. It is the genius of the student that is the driving force behind all learning. Before educators take on any of the other important issues in learning, they must first have a thorough understanding of what lies at the core of each student's intrinsic motivation to learn, and that motivation originates in each student's genius.”
“Your self-confidence is directly connected to how much you feel you are making a difference in the world.”
“I'm very much involved with Asian art and its theory and practice, mainly Chinese because that was quite sophisticated. I tend to look at that more than I look the Western.”
“Oh, but my treasure, it is so much less exhausting. You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things.”

Source : M. L. Stedman (2012). “The Light Between Oceans”, p.323, Simon and Schuster
“I just didn't like going to school.”

Source : Interview with Fred Topel, www.cinemablend.com. August 14, 2006.
“In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might become.”
“The bottom line is that I'm an actor, so when somebody pitches me a great part, it's a no-brainer. You never know what it's gonna be like, in terms of the actual experience. You can be really excited about a part that can turn out shitty, you can have a bad time, there's a bad egg or two or three, in the bunch, or the producers are weird, or something like that.”

Source : "Kathy Bates Talks AMERICAN HORROR STORY: COVEN, Working with other Talented Women, Her Cruel Character, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 4, 2014.
“The thing that I like about being me is that everybody gets a different feeling from me.”

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