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"I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class."
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"The commonplace books of the old Puritans were invaluable to them. They would never have been able to compile such works as they did if they had not been careful in collecting and arranging their matter under different heads."
"The only lesson you can learn from history is that it repeats itself."
"Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great."
"Robbing people of their actual history is the same as robbing them of part of themselves. It's a crime."Fuka-Eri thought about that for a moment.Tengo went on, "Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our collective memory. If our collective memory is taken from us - is rewritten - we lose the ability to sustain our true selves."
"The tragedy about history - personally and globally - is that while we may learn it we rarely learn from it."
"It is notorious that the news of the Emancipation Proclamation was kept from the people of Texas and not celebrated until 'Juneteenth'. There may be those in Texas now who believe they can insulate their state-a state that had its own courageous revolution-from the news of evolution and from the writing in 1786 of a Constitution that refuses to mention religion except when demarcating and limiting its role in the public square. But we promise them today that they will join their fore-runners in the flat-earth community, and in the mad clerical clique of those who believed that the sun revolved around the earth. Yes, they will be in schoolbooks-as a joke on the epic scale of William Jennings Bryan. We shall be fair, and take care to ensure that their tale is told."
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"There's nothing more boring than unintelligent actors, because all they have to talk about is themselves and acting. There have to be other things."
"I wouldn't say I'm a method actor. I do research when I feel I don't have enough experience for the part I'm playing."
"When you have a person in power who punishes people for speaking their mind, it's truly dangerous."
"I've been lucky-my looks haven't put me into one category. I don't look like a blue blood. I don't look like a criminal. I don't look like anything."
"I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships."
"I learned never to listen to acting teachers because they don't know what the hell they're talking about."
"You get money out of acting. You get gray hair out of directing. Actually, I get more of a rush from directing."
"Bush is very clever. When the debate should have been about the deterioration of our cities and the lack of action by government, he sent in his idiot to make an outrageous statement about Murphy Brown."
"It's difficult when you have to turn down a tremendous amount of money because you don't like what the script is saying and you don't have any money."
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