"I became a dancer late and an actor late."

-- Mads Mikkelsen

#Dancer Quotes #Actors Quotes

“Even when alternative views are clearly wrong, being exposed to them still expands our creative potential. In a way, the power of dissent is the power of surprise. After hearing someone shout out an errant answer, we work to understand it, which causes us to reassess our initial assumptions and try out new perspectives. â€œAuthentic dissent can be difficult, but it's always invigorating,â€ [Charlan] Nemeth [a professor of psychology at the University of California at Berkeley] says. â€œIt wakes us right up.”
“As a baby, Bret Hart was so ugly that they had to put tinted windows on his incubator!”
“The standard personality type for a writer is a shy megalomaniac.”
“There are people who believe in an absolutely transparent prose; with every respect for clarity of expression, I don't.”
“Freedom means Freedom for the Group, not Freedom for the Individual. (â€¦) Men must not be slaves to other men, but they must be slaves to their group. For, if they are not slaves to their own group, they will assuredly become slaves to some other.”
“We should praise the qualities we would like to see in others, declare that others possess them already, and then watch how quickly these persons will respond.”
“Writing is like sex. You have to save your love for the love object. If you go around spouting about your idea, there'll be no "charge" left. You can't father children that way.”
“God help us from those who believe that they are the sole possessors of truth. How we manage at times to agree willingly to become prisoners within our own minds and souls of beliefs and ideas on which we can never be flexible.”

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