"I found at this point that effective acting wasn't what I wanted to do, that I didn't want to make effects, that I wanted, as it were, to leave an impression of a particular kind of human being."

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Source : "Paul Scofield: An Actor for All Seasons". Book by Garry O'Connor (Chapter 22, p. 131), 2002.

Paul Scofield

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“When I came in, the city was on the edge of bankruptcy. I'm proud of what I did. I built the foundation that mayors after me built upon - particularly Bloomberg. But the foundation was essential because if it hadn't occurred, we would have been another Detroit.”
“Heaven is a place of restless activity, the abode of never-tiring thought.”
“Many people tell me what I ought to do and just how I ought to do it, but Few have made me want to do something..”

Source : Mary Parker Follett (1918). “The New State: Group Organization the Solution of Popular Government”, p.230, Penn State Press
“A dancer's life is all about repetition.”
“I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world.”
“Somebody said, "Well, you're going to write your definitive book about your life, biography." No, I'm not. I haven't done that. I wrote a book of letters which gives an insight into the real me as opposed to the public perceptions of me. But I'm convinced historians will figure out the things we got wrong and hopefully the things we got right.”
“If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. Whoever concerns himself with big technology, either to push it forward or to stop it, is gambling in human lives.”
“Sometimes, when you walk by the home of the girl you love, you can see her standing by the window... She waves at you, and you wave back... But it's her grandmother...”

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