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“Great actors try to dismiss all ideas from their conscious mind in order to provide an experience that is real.”
Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Suppose you turn your attention inward in search of this 'I'. You may encounter nothing more than an ever changing stream of consciousness, a flow of thoughts and feelings in which there is no real self to be discovered.”
Source : Jim Holt (2012). “Why Does the World Exist?: One Man's Quest for the Big Answer”, p.256, Profile Books
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“Language is the close-fitting dress of thought.”
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“I’ll be back tomorrow,†he said, “at nine o’clock. Don’t open your door to anyone else.†“Not even my balcony door?†“Especially not your balcony door.”
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“Sometimes a wind comes up, blows you off course. You’re not ready for it, but if you’re lucky, you end up in a more interesting place than you’d planned.”
Source : Nora Roberts (2012). “Megan's Mate: The Calhouns”, p.80, Penguin
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“A company can seize extra-ordinary opportunities only if it is very good at the ordinary operations.”
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“It is commonly said that if rational argument is so seldom the cause of conviction, philosophical apologists must largely be wasting their shot. The premise is true, but the conclusion does not follow. For though argument does not create conviction, the lack of it destroys belief. What seems to be proved may not be embraced; but what no one shows the ability to defend is quickly abandoned. Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.”
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“Frank's audience doesn't care if a girl singer, a comic or an organ grinder with a monkey opens the show. They are there to see HIM.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.