"My work requires acting at its most committed - it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn't work for narcissistic or selfish actors."

-- Mike Leigh

#Selfish Quotes #Resilience Quotes #Acting Quotes

“Our problem is that we are in the Word but not under the Word.”
“Nobody will give you freedom. You have to take it.”

Source : Meret Oppenheim, Therese Bhattacharya-Stettler, Matthias Frehner, Nathalie Bäschlin, Kunstmuseum Bern (2007). “Meret Oppenheim: retrospective : "an enormously tiny bit of a lot"”, Hatje Cantz Pub
“So I had the opportunity to do what the kids in the Hershey program do, except that the Hershey program lets them do it on such a larger scale, with the regional and national competitions.”
“Mental time-travel is one of the greatest gifts of the mind. It makes us human, and it makes us special.”

Source : "Time Warped: Unlocking the Mysteries of Time Perception". Book by Claudia Hammond, May 3, 2012.
“Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.”
“If we put together all that we have learned from anthropology and ethnography about primitive men and primitive society, we perceive that the first task of life is to live. Men begin with acts, not with thoughts.”
“Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.”

Source : "Home before Dark". Book by Susan Cheever, 1984.
“The thing that's depressing is I think that the crime is becoming more concentrated and we are moving very quickly towards a two-class society. Income and equality are both becoming gigantic issues. There is less and less money for the states and localities for anti crime programs because we have this gigantic war on terror.”

Source : Source: www.hitfix.com

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