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You think about when you're with your friend, and you hang out with your friend. And then you go do whatever you're doing, your life. You know, and then you see your friend again. But for us, we were friends that, we would be together, and then we would go to work, which was us still again, so we were always together. ”
I grew up - my dad, every time I was with my dad, he was always - not always, but he wrote. He's a writer. So he was always in his office writing. He made a plan and, like, a point of, 'This is my work. I'm going to do this every day for these amount of hours.' So I think that's where I got, like, a work sort of ethic. ”
What I work hardest at is just trying to not let things get me crazy. ”
Theater represents to me this phenomenon in juxtaposition to real life, where there are all these imposed guidelines. ”
I think that the actors that I work with feel safer with me. Because they know I understand what they go through and I don't see them as chess pieces. ”
Life on the planet is born of woman. ”
They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide? ”
Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth. ”
The tasks of paleontologists and classical historians and archaeologists are remarkably similar - to excavate, decipher and bring to life the tantalizing remnants of a time we will never see. ”
We think of our prison inmates as the dregs of society, and we scorn them and push them off to the side and forget about them. We have to remember that they are humans, and they have rights, and yes, they did wrong, but we all have one shot at doing wrong, you know? ”