"Using drugs didn't help me to play, all it did was to hang me up for about fifteen years."

-- Joe Pass

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“Your real, new self (which is Christ's and also yours, and yours just because it is His) will not come as long as you are looking for it. It will come when you are looking for Him.”
“In our worship of certainty we must distinguish between the sound certainty and the sham, between what is gold and what is tinsel; and then, when certainty is attained, we must remember that it is not the only good; that we can buy it at too high a price; that there is danger in perpetual quiescence as well as in perpetual motion; and that a compromise must be found in a principle of growth.”

Source : Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (1995). “Capistalist Civilisation”, p.106, Verso
“Absolute hospitality would in no way amount to the absence of violence. To the contrary, it would enthrone violence precisely under the guise of nonviolence because it would leave the violators unchanged and the consequences of violence unremedied.”
“Comedy is incredibly hard. You have to be loose. You have to be not afraid to fail.”
“A Scorpio, it's just about peeling back the layers. And I'm always surprised at myself-there's a lot under there.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“An acceptance of your cultural inheritance, and at the same time a dislike of it, is a building block of good art.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Trying to stay in the moment as an actor and being really [present in] what you're doing and the scene that's going on and where the characters have come from, it wasn't difficult, per se, to really embody and embrace.”

Source : "Danielle Panabaker Exclusive Interview THE CRAZIES". Interview with Matt Currie, collider.com. February 24, 2010.
“I think good art happens on that edge between comfortable and in a lot of pain, you know what I mean?”

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