Nature conserves, prefers novelty.
Terence McKenna
Recitation: by Male by Female
The place of my birth, and residence for nearly sixteen years, in the early part of my life, became endeared to my feelings and affections; and more especially so after I had quitted it for an unknown place, and to associate with strangers.
John Britton
LifeMy LifeStrangersEarlyPlace
Running - and yoga, too - is my sanity and my saviour. It's just finding the time to do it!
Jill Hennessy
TimeFindingSanityJustYogaToo
To make three films out of one shortish book, they have to turn it into an epic, just as 'Lord of the Rings' is an epic. But 'The Hobbit' isn't an epic: its tone is intimate and personal, and although it's full of adventures and excitement, they're on a different scale to those of the bigger book.
John Lanchester
BookThreePersonalExcitementTurn
There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization.
Steven Pinker
LearningCultureSocializationInnate
You know you have more to offer, and it gets frustrating when you aren't given the chance.
Mindy Cohn
ChanceYouKnowMoreOfferGiven
Rehearsals are set up so that you find out all the nuances about your character. You never want to beat yourself up. It's about finding the right direction, and most of the time, the right direction is not what you think is the right direction. That's why the director's there: to guide you there.
Djimon Hounsou
CharacterTimeYourselfThinkYou
I don't want to be identified by any one role I do.
Chris Noth
WantRoleAnyIdentified
Any attempts at humor immediately after September 11th were deemed tasteless.
Allen Klein
HumorSeptemberAnyWereAfter
Contentment is the only real wealth.
Alfred Nobel
WealthRealContentmentOnly
My favorite English teacher in high school showed me 'Brazil' when I was 15, and it blew my mind. It's one of those movies that's revealed itself in different ways as I've gone back to it over the years.
Win Butler
TeacherSchoolMindMeHigh School
You can admire people for sure, and they're worth admiring, but you need to find that special thing about yourself. It takes working hard, getting the technique, and learning to sing and all that stuff, but the master class is about bringing yourself to the role.
Susan Egan
LearningYourselfPeopleWorthYou
Republican governors are more lunatic than they used to be - as attested by all the ones so eager to turn down free federal money to qualify more of their poor citizens for Medicaid under Obamacare. Meanwhile, some states have taken the money only to hoard it.
Rick Perlstein
MoneyFreeDownPoorMoreTurn
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