"The philosophical underpinnings of my approach to acting are that there are universal human qualities, and that every character is actually available within each one of us, that if we tap down into that universal humanness, we can find whatever character it is that we need to play already there within ourselves, and it's just a matter of peeling apart the onion that is you and finding that character within you, because of this universal human quality."

-- Misha Collins

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“The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading. It isnâ€™t achieved by the book alone, nor by the child alone, nor by the adult whoâ€™s reading aloudâ€”itâ€™s the relationship winding between all three, bringing them together in easy harmony.”
“The desert has a subtle and a cruel charm. She destroys while she enthralls.”

Source : Rosita Forbes (1921). “The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara”
“[for indicted foreigners] simple expulsion is not enough (...) they must be arrested immediately, tried using a fast-track procedure, and then expelled to serve their sentences in the countries they came from, (...) it isn't right that foreign criminals are being housed in our [Italian] jails.”

Source : Il Giornale Interview, April 28, 2008.
“In my experience, being busy and working hard is the key to sanity/happiness.”
“I never defeated a healthy opponent.”
“Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.”

Source : Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.53, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“I always take my wife morning tea in my pyjamas. But is she grateful? No, she says she'd rather have it in a cup.”
“As I got into my teens, I started reading better books, beginning with the Beats and then the hippie writers, people like Wallace Stegner up in Northern California, and all the political New Journalism stuff, the Boys on the Bus dudes and Ken Kesey.”

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