"Are you in a universe which is ruled by natural laws and, therefore, is stable, firm, absolute - and knowable? Or are you in an incomprehensible chaos, a realm of inexplicable miracles, an unpredictable, unknowable flux, which your mind is impotent to grasp? The nature of your actions - and of your ambition - will be different, according to which set of answers you come to accept."

-- Ayn Rand

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“After Hollywood, you know if people are interested in you or in the fact that you've been in a movie. You know who your real friends are.”
“Prayer is the only way to amend your life: and without prayer, it will never be mended.”

Source : Alexander Whyte (1948). “Lord, Teach Us to Pray”, p.146, CCEL
“In the case of drama (stage, movies, television ), there appear to be people in almost every audience who never quite fully realize that a play is a set of fictional, symbolic representations. An actor is one who symbolizes other people, real or imagined. [...] Also some years ago it was reported that when Edward G. Robinson, who used to play gangster roles with extraordinary vividness, visited Chicago, local hoodlums would telephone him at his hotel to pay their professional respects.”

Source : "Language in Thought and Action". Book by S. I. Hayakawa (p.27-28), 1991.
“I don't want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.”

Source : "Aisha Tyler Is a Woman Men Can't Help But Love". Interview with Paul Schrodt, www.esquire.com. May 28, 2014.
“In order to grow old, you have to experience everything, but in moderation.”
“I stopped doing comics because I found the pressure really high to nail it every time. It's really difficult to be creative all the time.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The reader will find no figures in this work. The methods which I set forth do not require either constructions or geometrical or mechanical reasonings: but only algebraic operations, subject to a regular and uniform rule of procedure.”
“Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.”

Source : Dyer's Hand (1963) "Notes on the Comic"

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