". . . I felt that making her one-dimensional would be an insult to the audience, and also not as interesting. All destructive people have an inner side to them, and the more three-dimentional your characters are on screen the more compassion you can open up in an audience . . .. To me, that involves the audience more, it stimulates them and asks more of them."

-- Richard LaGravenese

#Character Quotes #Compassion Quotes #Interesting Quotes

“A nation can be one or the other, a democracy or an imperialist, but it can't be both. If it sticks to imperialism, it will, like the old Roman Republic, on which so much of our system was modeled, like the old Roman Republic, it will lose its democracy to a domestic dictatorship.”

Source : "Chalmers Johnson: 'Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic'". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. February 27, 2007.
“My guard stood hard when abstract threats, too noble to neglect, deceived me into thinking, I had something to protect.”
“No one who wears a crown is ever safe.”
“General rules have been legislated into being by past masters.”
“Understanding the often unconscious nature of genetic control is the first step toward understanding thatâ€”in many realms, not just sexâ€”weâ€™re all puppets, and our best hope for even partial liberation is to try to decipher the logic of the puppeteer.”

Source : Robert Wright (2010). “The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology”, p.48, Vintage
“It was the first smile of my life. Of course, that is a ridiculous thing to say; I had been smiled at often, the big man had smiled at me not a minute since. And yet I say: it was the first smile, because it was the first that ever went straight into me like a needle too thin to be seen.”
“You give me the feeling that the universe Was made by something more than human For something less than human. But I identify myself, as always, With something that there's something wrong with, With something human.”

Source : Randall Jarrell (1966). “The Lost World”, London : Eyre & Spottiswoode
“Answering a letter from a church asking what else they should try after having failed to raise enough money on bake sales, bazaars, suppers, etc. Why not try religion?”

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