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"The television is 'real'. It is immediate, it has dimension. It tells you what to think and blasts it in. It must be right. It seems so right. It rushes you on so quickly to its own conclusions your mind hasn't time to protest, 'What nonsense!'."
"From now on I hope always to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to see what it has observed when I thought I was sitting this one out. We never sit anything out."
"Devices which in some curious new way imitate nature are attractive to simple minds."
"I have never seen a more lucid, more lonely, better balanced mad mind than mine."
"Kurt [Sutter] is one of the few showrunners that actually sits down and talks to the actor alone, and then with all of the other writers, and basically tells you what he has in mind and what's going to go down."
"In foreign affairs we must make up our minds that whether we wish it or not, we are a great people and must play a great part in the world. It is not open to us to choose whether we will play that great part or not."
"It was a pleasure to deal with a man of high ideals, who scorned everything mean and base, and who possessed those robust and hardy qualities of body and mind, for the lack of which no merely negative virtue can ever atone."
"When youre a kid, youre only exposed to whats going on in your mind. The mind is like a bigger-than-outer-space type of thing."
"I can't wait until I touch the stage, I'm going to catch the spirit and lose my mind."
"My mind moves very fast. I go through a lot of moods and emotions."
"There is nothing in your mind which wasn't experienced before hand."
"The human mind may perceive truth only through thinking, as is clear from Augustine."
"One must bear in mind the odd angle or slant that the rays of love have to take in order to reach a heart like mine."
"If I'm out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog."
"I saw Dolce Vita and my mind was blown by it, by the synthesis. I realised I wanted to be a filmmaker and started making films. I was writing screenplays and couldn't get money because my work was so uncommercial."
"It's my profession to bring people from various outlying districts of the mind to the normal. There seems to be a general feeling it's the place where they ought to be. Sometimes I don't see the urgency myself."
"A mind that has seen, and suffered, and done, speaks to us of what it has tried and conquered."
"The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice."
"Have a purpose in life, and having it, throw into your work such strength of mind and muscle as God has given you."
"Oh, how hard it is to find The one just suited to our mind!"
