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The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.


Harold Bloom


#cause #critic #demonstrate #demonstrating #every

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.


Marcus Tullius Cicero


#circumstances #forms #habits #heredity #live

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

Psychology is as important as substance. If you treat people with respect, they will go out of their way to accommodate you. If you treat them in a patronizing way, they will go out of their way to make your life difficult.


Mohamed ElBaradei


#difficult #go #important #life #make

Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.


Walter Benjamin


#destruction #ecstasy #frenzy #living #only

Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.


Candice Bergen


#behavior #between #distance #me #other

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.


Karl Kraus


#closer #distance #greater #look #looks

Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race.


Tim Bishop


#commit #despot #developed #developed world #leaders

Well, first of all, you read the script a million times. Because what the script gives you are given circumstances. Given circumstances are all the facts of your character.


Viola Davis


#character #circumstances #facts #first #first of all

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.


Mark Twain


#circumstances #denied #even #prayer #profanity






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