"I'm still trying to figure out what the right line is between myself and the people I play. Sometimes I go too far one way or too far the other."

-- Maggie Gyllenhaal

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“I don't have a philosophy of caricature. I'm not even sure I am a caricaturist, in the strictest sense of the word - I don't really exaggerate much. For a while, recently, I was thinking of attempting a reverse-caricature of Donald Trump; he certainly already appears to be a caricature of himself. I wondered about de-caricaturizing him, scaling back his whole face and hair and visual excess, and attempting to shed light on him that way.”

Source : Source: www.politico.com
“If you see your nature, you don't need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your awareness. Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind. Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines?”
“Theatre is the most perfect artistic form of coercion.”

Source : Augusto Boal (2000). “Theater of the Oppressed”, p.39, Pluto Press
“I've never been on a TV show for more than a season and you have to continually keep it interesting and you have to keep it connected, even as you change.”
“Could we take anxiety to be something that may be of importance, may even be meaningful? And it says something about your history, and could we learn to sort of hold it in a way that's more compassionate, to sort of bring the frightened part of you close and treat it with some dignity, and keep focused instead on what kind of life you want to live connected to what kind of meaning and purpose. That's going to be a quicker, more self-compassionate and more certain journey forward inside things like panic disorder.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“The simple record of these three short years of active life has done more to regenerate and soften mankind than all the discourses of philosophers and all the exhortations of moralists.”
“This neglect of a very important Brazilian writer is, in my view, the result of Brazil's relative isolation from what metropolitan tastemakers. If JoÃ£o Gilberto Noll were writing in French or German or even Russian, it's likely he'd be more broadly translated.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we become as still as a picture.”

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