". . . . I cannot escape my life but can only use my determination and courage to make it the best I can."

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Source : Karen Cushman (2012). “Catherine, Called Birdy”, p.163, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Karen Cushman

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“real art is religion, a search for the beauty of God deep in all things.”

Source : Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.238, D & M Publishers
“I don't like to intellectualize about my acting. I don't sit around and study the pages of a script over and over again. I don't worry whether the period is contemporary or three hundred years ago. Human beings are all alike. The main thing in acting is honesty, to feel the humanity and get to the essence of the character. You can't put anything into a character that you haven't got within you.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Imagining someone else's pain with too much surety can be as damaging as failing to imagine it.”

Source : Leslie Jamison (2014). “The Empathy Exams: Essays”, p.21, Granta Books
“To me, it all comes down to things being character-driven. It's hard for me to look beyond that. CG and all this cool stuff - so be it. But to me, it pretty much begins and ends with character-driven plots rather than technologically-driven plots.”

Source : "Hand-Crafted Voices With 'Futurama' Actor Billy West". Interview with Charles Webb, www.mtv.com. June 20, 2011.
“Forgive me for using the term 'fat little brother' ... It is not a criticism, rather a suggestion that he do some exercises and go on a diet, don't you think? I'm doing this for the gentleman's health.”
“Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined. Society has but little connection with such beginnings. The worm is in man's heart. That is where it must be sought. One must follow and understand this fatal game that leads from lucidity in the face of existence to flight from light.”
“Liberty finds no refuge in a jurisprudence of doubt.”
“[Before the Spirit] I had been producing comic books for 15-year-old cretins from Kansas [I wanted to aim for] a 55-year-old who had his wallet stolen on the subway. You can't talk about heartbreak to a kid.”

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