"I don't think RADA wanted me, actually. When I was at Oxford I had a boyfriend at Central [School of Speech and Drama] and it looked like the most fantastic life, but I think not going makes you more free. Nothing can teach you what it's like to work on a film set, and the best education there can be for an actor is to walk up the street and observe human nature."

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Source : "Bodice ripper". Interview with Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2005.

Rosamund Pike

#Drama Quotes #School Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“New perspectives give birth to new historic ages. Humankind has had many dramatic revolutions of understanding - great uses of fire and the wheel, language and writing. We found that the earth only seems flat, the sun only seems to circle the earth, matter only seems solid.”
“I made the mistake of watching "A.I." on cable the week they showed it about 792 times, and I ended up watching it every time it was on.”

Source : "A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (2001) review" by Joe Bob Briggs, www.joebobbriggs.com. November 29, 2009.
“Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs....”
“The life that I live and the experiences that I have always affect what comes out of me creatively. I think that's what makes music real.”
“But no, I'm not political. My obligation is to pull the lever and elect somebody who's going to make life a little better for everybody, especially those who don't have as much good fortune as others.”
“Faith is never identical with piety.”
“Our Onirisme movement was a synthesis between the Romantic Fantastique and Surrealism. Dimov and I rejected automatic writing. We loved surrealist painters: Chirico, Magritte, Tanguy and especially Brauner (also a Romanian), who never respected the laws that Breton imposed in his manifests.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The best thing to do is to loosen my grip on my pen and let it go wandering about until it finds an entrance. There must be one â€“ everything depends on the circumstances, a rule applicable as much to literary style as to life. Each word tugs another one along, one idea another, and that is how books, governments and revolutions are made â€“ some even say that is how Nature created her species.”

Source : Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (2010). “The Devil's Church and Other Stories”, p.11, University of Texas Press

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