"For some strange reason, we believe that anyone who lived before we were born was in some peculiar way a different kind of human being from any we have come in contact with in our own lifetime. This concept must be changed; we must realize in our bones that almost everything in time and history has changed except the human being."

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Source : Uta Hagen (2009). “Respect for Acting”, p.104, John Wiley & Sons

Uta Hagen

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“Christian life isnâ€™t a one-person race. Itâ€™s a relay. You are not alone; youâ€™re part of a team assembled by our unstoppable God to achieve his eternal purposes.”
“If (early humans) weren't using and refining language I would like to know what they were doing with their autocatalytically increasing brains.”
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“There are plenty of times we need fierce compassion, fierce love. Just like when a child does something that is very harmful and we say "No!", we need some kind of fierceness. There's a certain kind of fierceness that can look like anger and has that fire of anger, but the difference is that it's not blinded with reactivity.”
“Ideas are cheap and abundant; what is of value is the effective placement of those ideas into situations that develop into action.”

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