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Wesley Morris Quotes

American popular culture has long been marked by an absence of empathy for American Indians. Westerns doubled as a campaign against so-called savages in a way that desensitized us to the savages we'd become.

Wesley Morris

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: critic
Nationality: american

Topics

Culture Empathy American Long Become

Reading should be a repeat performance.

John Barton

Performance Reading Repeat Should

If the law doesn't apply equally to everybody, then you don't really have a system of law.

Matt Taibbi

Law You System Everybody Apply Then

You cannot will yourself to be interested in something you're not interested in. But you can actively discover and deepen your interest.

Angela Duckworth

Yourself You Will Interest Something

I wanted to be a veterinarian until I saw a video of a vet performing surgery on a dog. Then I decided I wanted to be a pianist.

Amy Lee

Dog Veterinarian Saw Vet Performing

Time and energy are finite. You only have so many hours in a day and so many days of your life. The solution to using your time wisely isn't about exerting more energy - eventually you'll run out of steam. The key to reaching your greatest potential is about working smarter, not harder.

Amy Morin

Life Time Day Energy Key Potential

It's definitely like being in some weird sorority. I'm friends with a lot of actresses, but my 'SNL' friends are my closest.

Ana Gasteyer

Weird Friends Being Like Some SNL

A man writing a letter is a man in the act of thinking, and it was an exercise Reagan obviously enjoyed. After his first meeting with Gorbachev, for example, he sent a 'Dear Murph' letter about it to his old friend George Murphy, a former senator and actor who had once played Reagan's father in a film.

Russell Baker

Friend Father Man Writing Thinking

Actors are part of a certain percentage of people on this planet who have an emotional vocabulary as a primary experience. It's as if their life is experienced emotionally and then that is translated intellectually or conceptually into the performance.

Mary McDonnell

Life Experience People Performance

There are two worlds out there - two Americas out there. If you're a white person, there's one way of being a citizen in our country, and if you're a brown or a black body, there's another way of being a citizen, and that way is very close to death. It's very close to the loss of your life.

Claudia Rankine

Life Death Black Loss You Body

My experience is, the writer I was when I began was only a fraction of what I feel capable of doing now. Don't stand on that threshold saying, 'I'm uncertain about my talent.' You can grow that part of yourself.

Anthony McCarten

Experience Yourself Talent Saying

I don't believe environment has the slightest bit to do with anything - I only believe in ancestral influence. It would have made no difference whether I'd been brought up in a reform school, or on the island of Lesbos.

Preston Sturges

School Influence Believe Environment

Sheikh Rahman's fatwa was the first time that anyone associated with al Qaeda had given religious sanction to attacks on American aviation, shipping and economic targets.

Peter Bergen

Time American First Time First Given