Writing fiction is an act of imaginative empathy.
Andrew Sean Greer
Recitation: by Male by Female
I think laptops should be banned from schools. Until you can prove you can add up on your fingers or think independently in your head, you have learnt nothing.
Joanna Lumley
ThinkYouNothingProveHeadUp
Degas was obsessed by the art of classical ballet, because to him it said something about the human condition. He was not a balletomane looking for an alternative world to escape into. Dance offered him a display in which he could find, after much searching, certain human secrets.
John Berger
ArtDanceWorldLookingSecrets
I always like to have some type of connection with the crowd.
Joel Embiid
ConnectionAlwaysCrowdLikeSome
There is nothing I enjoy more than doing my show.
Joel Grey
DoingEnjoyNothingMoreShowThan
You're not better than anybody else, but you're not less than anybody else. You're a child of the Most High God.
Joel Osteen
GodChildBetterYouHighMost
My life has shifted to different levels financially, in terms of fame as a result of being blessed enough to be able to share my music with the world, and what that has done for me. Despite all of that, I always want people to listen to my music and be able to relate to it as well as to me.
Trey Songz
LifeMusicPeopleMeBlessedWorld
Of course, I prefer organic farming to chemical-dependent farming, but sometimes absolutist organic prescriptions go too far. I don't even rule out the possibility of genetic modification generating some benign ideas, as long as we can keep them away from monopolists such as Monsanto.
Tristram Stuart
IdeasLongGoSometimesFarmingOut
The script is a blueprint for the film - there are very few bad scripts that make good movies. If you really like the character and understand the utility it serves within the movie, that's a part of my process.
Topher Grace
GoodCharacterProcessYouBadFilm
There's something mathematically satisfying about music: notes fit together and harmony and all that. And mathematics has to do with abstractions and making connections.
Tom Lehrer
MusicMathematicsTogetherHarmony
I have friends that are much better actors than I am that had to quit the business because they couldn't survive the auditions or the rejections, or people just didn't realize how good they were.
Robert Englund
GoodBusinessI AmPeopleSurvive
If somebody honks a horn in Cleveland, they're saying 'Hi.' It's so rare to be honked at in anger. When we have merging traffic, we just interweave. There's real courtesy.
Mary Doria Russell
AngerSayingTrafficCourtesyReal
I think, as an actor, you're constantly confronted with your fear of sticking your neck out.
Mary Steenburgen
FearThinkYouActorOutNeck
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