"In the language of an actor, to know is synonymous with to feel"

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Constantin Stanislavski

#Actors Quotes #Language Quotes #Feels Quotes

“I have no intention of dying. In fact, it will be the last thing I do!”
“Tolstoi explains somewhere in his writings why, in his opinion, "Science for Science's sake" is an absurd conception. We cannot know all the facts since they are infinite in number. We must make a selection ... guided by utility ... Have we not some better occupation than counting the number of lady-birds in existence on this planet?”
“Music is what I do; Christ is why I do it.”
“Blissâ€”a-second-by-second joy and gratitude at the gift of being alive, consciousâ€”lies on the other side of crushing, crushing boredom. Pay close attention to the most tedious thing you can find (Tax Returns, Televised Golf) and, in waves, a boredom like youâ€™ve never known will wash over you and just about kill you. Ride these out, and itâ€™s like stepping from black and white into color. Like water after days in the desert. Instant bliss in every atom.”
“The challenges for the writer included deciding which secrets were most important, how many secrets revealed were too many, which characters should know which information when, and how the revelations would impact the rest of the family. All of those questions eventually lead back to one: What's at the heart of this book? Where does it want to focus, or toward what does it want to lead us?”

Source : "Something to be shared". Interview with Reed Turchi, logger.believermag.com. November 11, 2014.
“Play is not only our creative drive; it's a fundamental mode of learning.”
“When I was a kid... I needed to belong.”
“I checked the actuarial tables, and the lowest death rate is among six-year-olds. So I decided to eat like a six-year-old.”

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