Plato Quotes
The elements of instruction should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion.
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It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.
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Going to rehearsals of school plays got me out of science. It became clear what inspired me and what dampened my spirit. The only other thing I could do at school was trampolining - it didn't seem to have much future in it.
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To supply people for ages in camps makes no sense... you have to rebuild that cabana that they rent out to tourists on the weekend. They need help getting their fields repaired and their boats repaired.
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I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script. If I'm pulling from things from my own life, then I think I'm being disingenuous to the character and the story.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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I get along very well with animals and children. I dig them, I get them.
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Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.
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Philadelphia's a good science-fiction town. There are many professional writers here, like Michael Swanwick, Tom Purdom, Gregory Frost, Victoria McManus and others. There are professional artists such as Bob Walters and Tess Kissinger and Susan McAninley.
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The problem with forbearance is that it always looks like a good thing to do until it stops working.
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I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.
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Despotism is a long crime.
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Violence is a tool of the ignorant.
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I was four when I first stood at the helm on my own.
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If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.
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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
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A tree grows. If you're staying the same, something is wrong. You're not alive.
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I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death.
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My mom was dying for me to write a book, she was my biggest advocate.
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I was on the Harvard board of overseers for six years, between 1989 and 1995.
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The purpose of art is to collide the intellectual and visceral together at the highest speed possible.
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I had written in another draft a completely different kind of fight, but they said they couldn't afford to shoot it. They needed a fight scene, though, so I was told to put a fight scene in, but not the one I had written.
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If you take a child from South Africa and you put them in Boston, they're going to speak with a Boston accent. And so, that's a way to see the world as everybody is equal, not as a result of politics, but as human beings.
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The elements of instruction should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion.
