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The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements.

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• I don't do method acting. If I play a farmer, I'm not gonna spend 3 weeks on a chicken farm. That's a bit too much for me.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Play
  • Acting
  • Method

• Relativism is neither a method of fighting, nor a method of creating, for both of these are uncompromising and at times even ruthless; rather, it is a method of cognition.

  

  Karel Capek
  • Fighting
  • Creating
  • Method

• But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.

  

  Gabriel Marcel
  • Up
  • Science
  • Method

• The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature
  • Method
  • Analyze

• I am a method actor, but I'm also a film actor as well as a method actor. Characters that don't have humility, whether they are heroes or villains, are hard to relate to. All characters in every aspect of what we do should have humility. If they don't, then they're a cartoon character.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Film
  • Actor
  • Humility

• The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Society
  • Religion
  • Assumption

• Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.

  

  Benjamin Cardozo
  • Inspiration
  • Technique
  • Method

• I'm Method trained. How is this character like me? What does she think of her mother? What does her mother think of her? It's like construction, and then, yes, you hope you're talented and that the universe aligns and captures the kind of laborer's work you've done and whatever else sprinkles down on you, and it's all caught on film or onstage.

  

  Ellen Barkin
  • Work
  • Character
  • Mother

• God does not work by only one method, paint in only one color, play in only one key, nor does he make only one star shine onto the earth.

  

  Eberhard Arnold
  • Work
  • God
  • Earth

• It's a question of methods. Everybody wants results, but nobody wants to do what they have to do to get them done.

  

  Harry Callahan
  • Done
  • Question
  • Result

• It's not how deep you go, it's how you go deep.

  

  Ida Pauline Rolf
  • Way
  • Deep
  • Approach

• Of course it was a method of play you had to change because people get the idea once they have played against you.

  

  Jack Charlton
  • People
  • Change
  • Play

• And I guess what I would say is that we can't think narrowly about movements for black liberation and we can't necessarily see this class division as simply a product or a certain strategy that black movements have developed for liberation.

  

  Angela Davis
  • Black
  • Liberation
  • Movements

• Spirit is not a mystic concept. The spirit of a person is manifest in her aliveness, brightness of his eyes, in the resonance of her voice and in the ease and gracefulness of his movements. These qualities are related to and stem from a high level of energy in the body... Sensing the harmony between the internal pulsation of our body and that in the universe, we feel identified with the universal, with God. We are like tuning forks vibrating at the same pitch.

  

  Alexander Lowen
  • God
  • High
  • Energy

• In man, the mechanical breathing is essential to life, and it is one of the old tests for death to see whether these movements have ceased completely.

  

  August Krogh
  • Life
  • Death
  • Breathing

• The Pain-Free Shopping Method: Buy a present for you, then a present for a friend. Then another present for you. Then a present for a friend. Then two presents for you. Then a present for a friend. Then go home, get into bed, and pull up the covers.

  

  Cynthia Heimel
  • Up
  • Home
  • Free

• As I review the great history of our nation, community organizers have been at the center of so many of our great social movements.

  

  Cory Booker
  • Great
  • History
  • Community

• If somebody had told me my method would not work I nevertheless would have tried it out to make sure for myself, for when I am wrong only one thing convinces me of it, and that is, to lose money. And I am only right when I make money. That is speculating.

  

  Jesse Livermore
  • Money
  • Loses
  • Convince

• What I feel now is connected to people. I feel connected and I feel a lot of love for people. I feel the possibility of what building social movements and what working together in struggle creates. Whatever that energy is, it feels a lot better than what I felt when I was younger - which was worthless and disconnected and isolated and alone.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Love
  • Energy
  • Building

• It's great when a huge amount of money goes from a dumb corporation into the hands of an awesome band with brilliant ideas who can use it to keep being a band for a year, as opposed to a band that's already huge taking one of those things - that's more pathetic.

  

  Alex Scally Beach House
  • Band
  • Dumb
  • Brilliant

• Ignorance, poverty, and greed must disappear so that light can prevail in all places.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Light
  • Poverty
  • Ignorance

• When he (Franklin Roosevelt) ultimately does not get the Republican Party nomination and decides to start his new Bull Moose Party, he does, for the first time, let black delegates be part of the party from elsewhere in the country.

  

  Geoffrey Cowan
  • Country
  • Republican Party
  • Delegates

• No student should be encouraged - by anyone - to change himself until he's "normal," a term that says everything and means nothing.

  

  Alexandra Robbins
  • Normal
  • Student
  • Encouraged

• The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements.

  

  Paul de Man
  • Method
  • Movements
  • Modernity