Thomas Wentworth Higginson Quotes
The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.
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I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
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Kurt Russell is so dreamy. Plus, he's great to work with, really respectful.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
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If you're on a road trip, you need driving music.
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Even successful musicians have had periods where people say they suck and no one likes them, even after they've had periods of great success. So I think it's like you just gotta do you and try to stay motivated. Until, you know, you decide to stay home and make spaghetti all day.
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I guess I am sometimes over the top on stage, but then, that is my personality. I'm over the top in real life, too.
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I was a very shy, overly big, kind of creepy-looking kid.
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I love to do a messy top knot because it's so easy but looks like it could have taken a bit of effort!
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That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.
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I'm too tough and sensitive to have to have some pubescent twerp with his mom's earring in his tongue, who combs his hair with Redi-Whip and has an Ani DiFranco tattoo on his shin, come show me how a computer works.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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For us to think we can enjoy, understand and practice the Christian religion with just Matthew to Revelation is foolishness.
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My gayness became quietly accepted and, shock of all shocks, life went on.
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I go to the club and can dance a little. I'm known to get down.
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Sugar crystallizes something in our American soul. It is emblematic of all industrial processes. And of the idea of becoming white. White being equated with pure and 'true': it takes a lot of energy to turn brown things into white things. A lot of pressure.
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The paparazzi terrify and torment people and endanger people and it's really unpleasant.
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Aequo animo poenam, qui meruere, ferunt.
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Men are to be estimated, not from what they know, but from what they are able to perform
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I'm one of the culprits who keeps turning stuff around, shaking up original tunes and trying to stand the canon on its ear. But sometimes, you just need to sing the song.
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It has become customary to say that a man needs only six feet of land. But a corpse needs six feet, not a person.
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Kazan is a performer's director, the best director I ever worked with... Most actors don't get any help from directors. Emotional help, if you're playing an emotional part. Kazan is the only one I know who really gives you help.
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I had siblings from South Asia, from East Asia, from depressed communities around America, and you know, we'd have long conversations.
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The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.
