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As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

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In England, it's now Sir Ben. Mister has just disappeared. It's not even on my passport anymore. They've taken Mister away from me. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

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The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

#every #justify #make #man #page

Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us. ↗

— Charles Kingsley

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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

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You play a part, and as soon as a movie is over and the camera stops, you go home and you're not really responsible for what you've done. ↗

— Nastassja Kinski

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What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

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I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

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Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

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