"Ah, whimsical. It's terrible the way words get attached to you like barnacles. As is what I do is acting on a 'whim'. If only these were gifts from God when I get an idea, but everything I have done that I really love has had a lot of hard work behind it."

-- Michael Leunig

#Art Quotes #Hard Work Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“I think that certainly my choices empower me.”
“I think, as an actor, you're always traveling. There's a sense of dislocation sometimes from home.”

Source : Interview with John Rye, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 21, 2011.
“There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.”

Source : "Lanterns and Lances‎". Book by James Thurber, p. 146, 1961.
“Look back to the cross, and the disciples gazing on it in terror from afar, and then look around on the nations that are influenced by the faith that there centres--and note the change! Then take these elements, established in history, and calculate the orbit Christianity is to fill.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 142), 1895.
“The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.”
“Comedy is what I really want to do and propel.”
“The work that I have been doing on television has been important to me because I have had the opportunity to portray very strong, intelligent women. It has been such a privilege to depict a woman that is independent, unapologetic, and resilient on both shows.”

Source : "Amanda Schull Suits and 12 Monkeys actor". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“If one evil thought, if one evil word, if one evil action, deserves eternal damnation, how many hells, my friends, do every one of us deserve, whose whole lives have been one continued rebellion against God!”

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