Ravi Zacharias Quotes

Television has been the single greatest shaper of emptiness.

Ravi Zacharias

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• My job as the actress playing Hanna Schmitz, as the actress playing any part, is to understand the character, and to ultimately love the character. And I did love Hanna, absolutely, because I understood her as profoundly as I did at the end of the day.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Character
  • Job
  • End

• I haven't a clue what's going to happen next, and I can't wait to find out.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Find
  • Happen
  • Wait

• I was a goody two shoes - a straight-A girl, and I took pride in my studies.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Girl
  • Pride
  • Shoes

• Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Real
  • Truth
  • Knowledge

• In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Life
  • Work
  • Thinking

• Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Violence
  • Another

• Cultural industries will be the next engine for growth after real estate, and Wanda will make cultural industries our long-term focus.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • Long
  • Real
  • Focus

• Strange – I'm not much of a film person. I love watching films, but they don't stay with me the way books do. Stranger still, because my husband is a screenwriter!

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Way
  • Film
  • Person

• Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • People
  • Mind
  • Eye

• Just know that as long as your family thinks you're amazing, then you really are amazing.

  

  Sabrina Bryan
  • Long
  • Family
  • Know

• I'm not interested in disposable music.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Music
  • Not Interested

• I adored my father.

  

  Nancy Wake
  • Father
  • Adored

• I get better roles in television. I'm not going to do a lesser role just to be in a feature film.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Film
  • Better
  • Television

• It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Culture
  • Wisdom

• 'Aren’t you even curious?' he asked. 'A million worlds out there with more wonders than I could tell you in a million years, and you don’t even want to ask a question?'

  

  Leigh Brackett
  • Question

• I spent an entire evening seated between Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, being charmed from either side. It was pure Hollywood magic.

  

  Lorna Luft
  • Magic

• Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.

  

  Jane Rule
  • Integrity

• At its most fundamental, information is a binary choice. In other words, a single bit of information is one yes-or-no choice.

  

  James Gleick
  • Words
  • Single

• Every few years, I think, 'Maybe now I'm finally smart enough or sophisticated enough to understand 'Ulysses.' So I pick it up and try it again. And by page 10, as always, I'm like, 'What the hell?'

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Up
  • Smart

• Editing is such a voyeuristic treat for me. I land on a theme and ask authors to pen works that fit the topic.

  

  Alison Tyler

• It is to TV that I owe my freedom from bondage of the Latin lover roles. Television came along and gave me parts to chew on. It gave me wings as an actor.

  

  Ricardo Montalban
  • Television
  • Wings
  • Bondage

• My parents have been very supportive, in fact, it was my mother who identified that what I was going through was actually depression. My family and friends never let me feel as if something was wrong with me. They made me feel that what I was going through was okay. They supported my decision to take medication for depression.

  

  Deepika Padukone
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Mother

• In the case of Five-O, I believe it was a combination of many ingredients - timing, chemistry, Hawaii.

  

  James MacArthur
  • Believe

• Television has been the single greatest shaper of emptiness.

  

  Ravi Zacharias
  • Single
  • Television
  • Emptiness