#examine

The literary culture, if you examine it, the high literary culture is that which preserves the government and you know it's really the talk for those who have. ↗

— Kathy Acker

#examine #government #high #know #literary

You have to examine a scene on the page first. Then you get into the basics of acting: Who are you? Who are you talking to? How do you feel about that person? ↗

— Debbie Allen

#acting #basics #examine #feel #first

The psychiatrists examine you and ask you about your life and work, and then they decide whether your film can be shown or not. It's a horrible experience. ↗

— Dario Argento

#ask #decide #examine #experience #film

I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#examine #faith #find #fully #hard

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#begins #being #conscious #educated #education

The examined life is no picnic. ↗

— Robert Fulghum

#life #picnic

No-one really feels self-confident deep down becuase it's an artifical idea. Really, people aren't that worried about what you're doing or what you're saying, so you can drift around the world relatively anonymously: you must not feel persucted and examined. Liberate yourself from that idea that people are watching you. ↗

— Russell Brand

#anonymously #around #deep #deep down #doing

There's more than a few remnants left in German welfare policy today. Many Germans eagerly condemn Hitler's fascism but won't examine the other reasons why the Third Reich succeeded for a season. ↗

— Suzanne Fields

#eagerly #examine #fascism #few #german

Actually, the curious thing is that the more you become a subject of admiration or loathing, the more you're examined under a microscope, the distance seems to open up between who you really are and the portrayals that people impose on you. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#admiration #become #between #curious #distance

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#act #borrow #borrowing #examine #him