"You put on a face for the public. The face isn't false; it's just another side of you. If it were false, you couldn't last. People want something real and natural, and if they catch you acting, you're dead. It has to look real. In order to look real, it has to be real, and I've always thought of the characters I've played as real people."

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Source : "The Garner Files: A Memoir".

James Garner

#Art Quotes #Real Quotes #Character Quotes

“Being vulgar is fine, but oh please just don't be boring.”
“Our duty as storytellers is to bring people to the station. There each person will choose his or her own train...But we must at least take them to the station...to a point of departure.”
“You want to do all of these preventative things to make sure you always look as young as possible, you don't want to look your age. Looking young and attractive matters, even more than the type of person you are, even more than the actions you commit.”

Source : Source: www.cosmopolitan.com
“Fire doesn't fall on empty alters. There has to be a sacrifice on the alter for the fire to fall. If you want the fire of God, you must become the fuel of God.”

Source : Tommy Tenney (1999). “The God Chasers: My Soul Follows hard After Thee”, p.65, Destiny Image Publishers
“If the horse you're drawing looks more like a dog, make it a dog.”
“When faced with writer's block, lower your standards and keep going.”
“Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing.”
“In wilderness people can find the silence and the solitude and the noncivilized surroundings that can connect them once again to their evolutionary heritage, and through an experience of the eternal mystery, can give them a sense of the sacredness of all creation.”

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