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There are a lot of things that fit on a bumper sticker in terms of either liberty or equality or progress that when made more concrete just don't pan out. ”
When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains. ”
Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at. ”
The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass. ”
I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor - to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself. ”
I identify as a feminist but subscribe to the pretty basic definition of a feminist as 'someone who seeks equality between the sexes.' ”
I like the idea of a record being more than one thing emotionally - human beings go through so many emotions in one day - and I like those things sitting next to each other. ”
You can't help it as a human being when you're put under so much scrutiny by multiple people, not even just one person in real life, telling you something. It harms you. ”
Among so many things, 'Time Passes' has shown me subversive ways of portraying time, of looking away from the human to the far more terrifying, far more immense texture of time beneath the minute span of a human life. ”
Being responsible for another human life terrifies me, because I kill plants. ”