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"That's always my ambition is to create a character out of what will help tell the story. I've never been an actor to say my character wouldn't do that, because he should do that in order to help tell the story."
"I think it's important to travel around in order to get a notion of what's going on, to find out what people are think about. I enjoy talking on campuses most because people are more informed and discussion is generally livelier."
"The master of superstition, is the people; and in all superstition, wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order."
"As you embrace your pain, you get relief and you find out how to handle that emotion. And if you know how to handle the fear, then you have enough insight in order to solve the problem. The problem is to not allow that anxiety to take over."
"In order to be loved, we have to love, which means we have to understand."
"Good order and discipline in any army are to be depended upon more than courage alone."
"In order not to annul our free will, I judge it true that Fortune may be mistress of one half our actions but then even she leaves the other half, or almost, under our control."
"I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier."
"The Christian religion alone contemplates the conjugal union in the order of nature; it is the only religion which presents woman to man as a companion; every other abandons her to him as a slave. To religion alone do European women owe their liberty."
"In order that she may be able to give her hand with dignity, she must be able to stand alone."
"We often do shallow good in order to accomplish evil with impunity."
"The writer's only real task: to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art"
"Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things."
"Order is one of the needs of life which, when it is satisfied, produces a real happiness"
"An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet."
"In the order named, these are the hardest to control - wine, women and song."
"The mathematical forms of order which the mind of a physicist manipulates coincides "miraculously" with experimental measurements."
"Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy."
"Why am I going?" he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. "You know that I am going in order to be where you are," said he. "I cannot do otherwise." "Not a word, not a movement of yours will I ever forget, nor can I."
"The world is waiting for new saints, ecstatic men and women who are so deeply rooted in the love of God that they are free to imagine a new international order."
