"I usually have a location and then I put the character there. I love place names. I think I'm tricking myself by being so specific - it suddenly becomes real to me. Just because I say it's Chicago, Illinois doesn't mean it's true, but place names sort of make me grounded and then I can put some people there."

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Peter Orner

#Real Quotes #Character Quotes #Mean Quotes

“my pleasure was in the strength of my back, in my noble shoulders, the cool smooth flesh cylinders of my arms.”
“Football is business and business is business.”
“I've learned to think in terms of having a long career. Actors can have very long careers that last until the day we die, but there will be moments when you'll feel like you're a failure or when you're disappointed in yourself.”
“I thought lacrosse was what you find in la church.”
“Nothing fairer than peace is given to man to know; Better one peace than countless triumphs”
“The world starts to exist, for Americans, when we are in conflict with a place. And then all of a sudden, Afghanistan pops up on the TV screen and it becomes a place. And it exists for three weeks and then it disappears into thin air.”
“The fate of your heart is your choice and no one else gets a vote”
“Taking the line of least resistance, we lump the most different people together under the same heading. Taking the line of least resistance, we ascribe to them collective crimes, collective acts and opinions. "The Serbs have massacredâ€¦", "The English have devastatedâ€¦", "The Jews have confiscatedâ€¦", "The Blacks have torched", "The Arabs refuseâ€¦". We blithely express sweeping judgments on whole peoples, calling them "hardworking" and "ingenious", or "lazy", "touchy", "sly", "proud", or "obstinate". And sometimes this ends in bloodshed." â€“ Amin Maalouf "On Identity”

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