"I started off as an actor thinking that I would be this Romeo, this dashing leading man. It turns out that I'm a character actor."

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Alessandro Nivola

#Character Quotes #Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“The great lawyer who employs his talent and his learning in the highly emunerative task of enabling a very wealthy client to override or circumvent the law is doing all that in him lies to encourage the growth in the country of a spirit of dumb anger against all laws and of disbelief in their efficacy.”
“So I think that we're in a very heightened and somewhat unusual period of politics and polling around the countries that New Zealanders take close interest in.”
“I think we musicians are emissaries. Every time we go before the public, we're there to make converts. We can either be ugly and contemptuous in our behavior, which will turn people off, or else we can carry ourselves with dignity and pride.”
“The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.”

Source : Herbert Read (1971). “The Philosophy of Modern Art: Collected Essays”, Books for Libraries
“A reply to Olbers' attempt in 1816 to entice him to work on Fermat's Theorem. I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a multitude of such propositions, which one could neither prove nor dispose of. []”
“Zen is a special transmission outside the scriptures,With no reliance on words and letters.A direct pointing to the human mind,And the realization of enlightenment.”

Source : Robert Linssen (1958). “Living Zen”
“The summer that I was ten - Can it be there was only one summer that I was ten? It must have been a long one then.”

Source : May Swenson (2013). “May Swenson: Collected Poems: (Library of America #239)”, p.96, Library of America
“I'm not really capable of memorizing stuff without moving around, that's how I do it.”

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