#act

I feel very lucky to have grown up having interaction with adults who were making change but who were far from perfect beings. That feeling of not being paralyzed by your incredible inadequacy as a human being, which I feel every day, is a part of the legacy that I've gotten from so many of the adult elders. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#being #beings #change #day #elders

I try to act out of faith. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#faith #i #out #try

I took upon myself to enact the part of a poor, unfortunate crazy girl, and felt it my duty not to shirk any of the disagreeable results that should follow. ↗

— Nellie Bly

#crazy #disagreeable #duty #enact #felt

Sometimes, the smaller roles in movies can be the most interesting. If you only take the stance that you'll only play central characters in movies, you'll find yourself not being able to indulge in that morally grey terrain that makes support characters so rich and interesting. ↗

— Joel Edgerton

#being #central #characters #find #grey

I actually think every war movie is an antiwar movie in its own way - with the exception of some of the propaganda movies. ↗

— Mark Boal

#antiwar #every #exception #i #movie

I've always been a fan of books that create an interesting blend of fact and fiction - whether it's Norman Mailer, or 'The Short Timers,' or 'In Cold Blood.' I'm a fan of that genre. ↗

— Mark Boal

#been #blend #blood #books #cold

The fact is that war films, by their very nature, are pitched at a high dramatic range. ↗

— Mark Boal

#fact #films #high #nature #pitched

Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the influence of the regions through which it has passed on its migrations, and the people with whom it came into contact, must be considered. ↗

— Franz Boas

#considered #contact #furthermore #history #influence

In other words, we are interested in the anatomical and mental characteristics of men living under the same biological, geographical, and social environment, and as determined by their past. ↗

— Franz Boas

#characteristics #determined #environment #geographical #in other words

They think I'm being serious when actually I'm a very big clown. But you have to know me to see that. I'm constantly cracking up and cracking everybody else around me up. ↗

— Lenny Kravitz

#around #being #big #clown #constantly