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These days I settle for feeling only 85 percent sure about most things, most of the time. I believe this is keeping me sane, and I also believe that it's keeping me human. In fact, I'm 85 percent sure of it. ”
But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK? People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source, for distant and unknowable reasons. ”
You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile, human psyche. It's like asking somebody to swallow the sun. ”
We have a lot of work we need to do to make sure all of our children have a better understanding of this diverse and wonderful and beautiful world. ”
My brother had the courage to come out in 1978, when equality was still a distant dream. ”
You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life. ”
Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits. ”
We believe in the dignity of every life, the possibility of every mind, the divinity of every soul. This is our true North. ”
On a film set, everything's done for you. You get to a stage where you can't even remember the last time you made yourself a sandwich. The crazy thing is that, as actors, we're trying to portray the human condition, but we're often not living in reality. ”
The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality. ”