"It's always very daunting to play someone who actually existed. You have to honor that, and be specific and accurate and try to make people believe that you're that guy, which is really hard."

-- Michael Shannon

#Believe Quotes #Play Quotes #People Quotes

“I don't do lullabyes.”
“Too few people recognize that the high technology so celebrated today is essentially a mathematical technology.”
“Just because you have stopped sinking doesn't mean you're not still underwater.”

Source : Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.8, Simon and Schuster
“I think I have enough tattoos for now. If I get any others, I'll probably do my kids initials.”
“We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living and its decaying trees, the thunder-cloud, and the rain...”
“The butcher seldom sees much interest in allowing the herd to be armed.”
“She couldn't be on his wavelength all the time. That's all. When you could recognize that and deal with it, you were on your way to an adult relationship.”
“I can't believe that people really prefer to go to the concert hall under intellectually trying, socially trying, physically trying conditions, unable to repeat something they have missed, when they can sit at home under the most comfortable and stimulating circumstances and hear it as they want to hear it. I can't imagine what would happen to literature today if one were obliged to congregate in an unpleasant hall and read novels projected on a screen.”

Source : "Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music". Book by Richard Kostelanetz, 1996.

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