#stance

With any actor, if you know your character well enough, you'll know pretty much what he would say under any circumstance, or whatever situation might rear its head. ↗

— Denis Leary

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I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances. ↗

— Ang Lee

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I think doing period piece is easier, because after a certain distance, everybody is equal, I think. The relative contemporary is harder. I think that's the way it is. ↗

— Ang Lee

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What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful. ↗

— Blaine Lee

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities. ↗

— Bruce Lee

#create #hell #i #opportunities

But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

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I maintain also that substances, whether material or immaterial, cannot be conceived in their bare essence without any activity, activity being of the essence of substance in general. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

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This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

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The first thing I do when I read a part is see if I can identify emotionally with a character. If I make that connection, everything else is just working on knowing their life circumstances and manifesting those through practice and research. ↗

— Joshua Leonard

#circumstances #connection #else #emotionally #everything

No matter the circumstances that you may be going through, just push through it. ↗

— Ray Lewis

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