"A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can."

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Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Jeff Bridges

#Believe Quotes #Acting Quotes #Pretending Quotes

“The fact that the infrastructure is falling apart is not necessarily because it's built poorly. The New York City subways were built in 1903. The fact that they're still running at all is an enormous success. The fact that New York City's bridges have held up as long as they have is extraordinary, and the engineers didn't have computers to tell them about tolerance. They overbuilt these things - traffic on them is like an ant on an elephant.”

Source : Source: www.today.com
“John Shook's experience shows just how important problemsolving is at Toyota - it comes before any other job skill for the graduate intake. When I joined Toyota in Toyota City (where for a time I was the only American) in late 1983, every newly hired college graduate employee began learning his job by being coached [...]”
“I am really focused on how I can improve myself and the world around me.”

Source : "Face Time | Rachel Roy". Interview with Tina Turnbow, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. January 24, 2012.
“I wish they were all dead and we were, too. It would be best." Well, there's no good response to that. I can hardly dispute it since I was walking around with a syringe to kill Peeta when I found them. Do I really want him dead? What I want...what I want is to have him back.”
“While researching my first book, I discovered so many fascinating tidbits that I wanted to share them with readers to remind them that while the book was fiction, the situations were based on historical realities - some of which were pretty hard to believe.”
“Her professors were astonished by her leaps of thought, by the finesse and elegance of her insights. She arrived at hypotheses by sheer intuition and with what eventually one of her mentors described as an almost alarming speed; she was like a dancer, he said, out in the cosmos springing weightlessly from star to star. Drones, merely brilliant, crawled along behind with laborious proofs that supported her assertions.”

Source : Deborah Eisenberg (2016). “Twilight of the Superheroes”, p.36, Pan Macmillan
“I like to approach comedy from character, to have the stakes for the individuals in the story be very high.”

Source : "Q&A with “Horrible Bosses” director Seth Gordon". Interview with Mandy Stadtmiller, nypost.com. July 3, 2011.
“The poet is like the wise fool or like a version of the stand-up, because we're standing, we're doing stand-up. That's exactly what we're doing.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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