Sarah Zettel Quotes
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
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Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
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I have been fortunate to experience a wide range of characters. What more can an actor ask for?
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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My mother, as a girl, had remembered this woman from Maine, someone who was part of the extended family somehow, and I recall her talking about this great, risk-taking woman. There are the most amazing, heroic stories in everybody's lives.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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There's no conversation more boring than talking about what it's really like to live in Newport and how the show compares to the real thing. I just don't care.
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I may be a star in the South, but when I go to Bollywood, I am a clean slate, a white paper. Whatever the director makes of me is what I will become for the audience.
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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
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I can speak a little bit of Hindi but understand every word.
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The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.
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Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.
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I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.
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I pride myself on my personilty and not my looks because one day, I will be old and crusty with a moustache, and someone is going to love me for my personality and not looks. So whoever is going to marry me is going to laugh till he dies.
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If you can turn your wants into your needs, you can do anything.
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The reason I dislike talking about the creative process is that I do have a creative process that is a winner and it's a sure thing.
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Theatre is immediate, it's alive, you're there with the audience, it can't be done again and again and again and again, it's organic.
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I don't want money to ever drive my career. I want my career to be driven by what I want to do in art.
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Ultimately when I throw myself behind a movie, I have to really believe in that director's vision.
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Music knits people together in some strange way. Same thing with food.
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Where the road sloped upward beyond the trees, I sat and looked toward the building where Naoko lived. It was easy to tell which room was hers. All I had to do was find the one window toward the back where a faint light trembled. I focused on that point of light for a long, long time. It made me think of something like the final throb of a soul's dying embers. I wanted to cup my hands over what was left and keep it alive. I went on watching the way Jay Gatsby watched that tiny light on the opposite shore night after night.
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The Lord of the Rings movie set an entirely new standard for fantasy in the movies.
