"I don't really ever think about whether or not I like the characters I'm playing. I'm more into the minutiae of their behaviour or what they're doing in a certain scene."

-- Mary-Louise Parker

#Character Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Behaviour Quotes

“Obviously, the most memorable has a lot to do with the time spent on the matter, and the Westerfield and Peterson cases are up at the top of the list.”
“School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this axiom, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.”

Source : Ivan Illich (1970). “The Dawn of Epimethean Man, and Other Essays”
“'Twas but a dream, yet by my heart I knew, Which still was panting, part of it was true: Oh how I strove the rest to have believed; Ashamed and angry to be undeceived!”
“All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens.”
“She had been married so often she bought a drip-dry wedding dress.”
“The Parish makes the constable, and when the constable is made, he governs the Parish.”

Source : John Selden, Richard Milward (1821). “Seldeniana: with a biographical preface”, p.100
“Anarchy is the stepping stone to absolute power.”
“There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.”

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