"I wanted really to make it moment to moment, partly because I'm an actor and that's how I operate - actors are all about creating the moment."

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Source : "From musical to memoir, actor Anthony Rapp comes up with dramatic making-of 'Rent' story and moving personal one" by David Wiegand, www.sfgate.com. February 21, 2006.

Anthony Rapp

#Creating Quotes #Actors Quotes #Moments Quotes

“I've made a couple of movies in the jungle, and I don't want to go back to the jungle.”
“Our growing ability to eliminate the slow-moving aspects of entertainment and go hopping from one peak to another is not without cost. Stand-up comics, movie-makers and others who earn their living entertaining no longer "waste" time with setups and plot development, lest we reach for the remote and click them off our screen. The result is a loss of subtlety, anticipation and nuance and, in the process, a coarsening of our discourse.”
“Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.”
“Two hundred years ago the forces of freedom challenged this idea. The children of the new enlightenment rose up to defy the tyranny of arrogant clergy and the censorship of pious bureaucrats. They boldly proclaimed that the state must be free from religious coercion and that religion must be free from state control. All individuals have the right to pursue the dictates of their own conscience. All citizens even have the right not to be religious at all.”
“Connections are made slowly, sometimes they grow underground.”
“Contact with reality is not an all-or-nothing condition.”
“In his book Stand Ye In Holy Places, President Harold B. Lee wrote that one is converted when his eyes see what he ought to see, his ears hear what he ought to hear and his heart understands what he ought to understand. "And what he ought to see, hear and understand is truth-eternal truth-and then practice it. That is conversion," he wrote.”
“But lack of evidence, if indeed evidence is lacking, is no grounds for atheism. No one thinks there is good evidence for the proposition that there are an even number of stars; but also, no one thinks the right conclusion to draw is that there are an uneven number of stars. The right conclusion would instead be agnosticism.”

Source : "Is Atheism Irrational?". Interview with Gary Gutting, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. February 9, 2014.

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