"It was a challenge for me to play somebody who was so quiet and receding and depressed because she's also on screen all the time, and she has to remain compelling and entertaining. I was really nervous that people were not going to stay with me while I was just staying behind that bloody counter."

-- Claire Danes

#Play Quotes #People Quotes #Challenges Quotes

“I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing.”

Source : 'Emblems' (1635) 'To the Reader'
“Every congresswoman surely endures the same strains that drive some of her male colleagues to have affairs: lots of travel, families far away, heady work that makes a domestic routine seem distant and boring. But the stakes are much higher for women, because they are still judged by a different standard.”
“I'm very close to my parents and we built a sailboat together when I was growing up. We're partners.”
“Today I'm out wandering, turning my skull into a cup for others to drink wine from. In this town somewhere there sits a calm, intelligent man, who doesn't know what he's about to do!”
“How chronic is the unconcern of men and women of the world!”
“There are people who are wired to be skeptics and there are people who are wired to be optimists. And I can tell you, at least from the last 20 years, if you bet on the side of the optimists, generally youâ€™re right.”
“He was the keynote speaker for our better angels.”
“Artificial intelligence is based on the assumption that the mind can be described as some kind of formal system manipulating symbols that stand for things in the world. Thus it doesn't matter what the brain is made of, or what it uses for tokens in the great game of thinking. Using an equivalent set of tokens and rules, we can do thinking with a digital computer, just as we can play chess using cups, salt and pepper shakers, knives, forks, and spoons. Using the right software, one system (the mind) can be mapped onto the other (the computer).”

Source : George Johnson (2011). “Machinery of the Mind”, p.450, Crown

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