"Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves."

-- Eugene H. Peterson

“I didn't want to raise my child in Hollywood.”
“Everyone accepts that there are inevitably little areas of secrecy reserved for specialists; as regards things in general, many believe they are in on the secret.”
“Acting is not a lofty performance; it is simply the source of becoming and existing transparently. Acting, I find, is the art of frothing to the surface every raw and honest emotion. The moment an actor pretends, he loses his audience forever”
“If there are degrees of evil, it is hard to say who is more contemptible: the brute who assumes the right to force the mind of others or the moral degenerate who grants to others the right to force his mind.”
“One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control.”
“I think you always need to be able to relate to your characters, but that doesn't necessarily mean...you have to understand why they do what they do, but you don't actually have to be like that yourself.”
“A man will always promise to do more than he can do to a woman he cannot understand.”

Source : Philippa Gregory (2011). “Philippa Gregory's The Cousins' War 3-Book Boxed Set: The Red Queen, The White Queen, and The Lady of the Rivers”, p.764, Simon and Schuster
“The painter thinks in terms of form and color. The goal is not to be concerned with the reconstitution of an anecdotal fact, but with constitution of a pictorial fact.”

Source : "Artists on Art: from the XIV to the XX Century". Book by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves, p. 423, 1972.

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