"Up close the city constitutes an oppressive series of staircases, but from a distance it inspires fantasies of wealth and power so profound that even our communists are temporarily rendered speechless."

-- David Sedaris

#Distance Quotes #Cities Quotes #Profound Quotes

“I have an innate instinct for knowing what's going to work.”

Source : FaceBook post by Lori Greiner from Oct 01, 2013
“You have to find out how to become the character.”
“Searching for the Truth through words and speech is like sticking your head in a bowl of glue.”
“When you're good at making excuses, it's hard to excel at anything else.”
“Once you lose the weight, you're really anxious to eat healthy.”
“We must solve the problem in health care by curbing out-of-control costs that erode paychecks for working families and push quality coverage out of reach for millions of Americans.”
“I know nothing more enjoyable than that happy-go-lucky wandering life, in which you are perfectly free; without shackles of any kind, without care, without preoccupation, without thought even of to-morrow. You go in any direction you please, without any guide save your fancy.”
“An actor uses his body as a tool and an instrument. In the same way a musician plays an instrument, the actor uses his body to convey feeling and emotion. An animator uses a pencil or a computer to create the same thing, the same exact way... An actor is taking words that are not his own, and he has to bring some kind of authentic life to those words. It's the same goal, to create this authentic life. Even if it's a drawing, or if it's a cartoon, you're still trying to create authenticity because, if the character emotes authentically, it has a power to connect with the audience.”

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