The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.
E. M. Forster
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America is an idea. And it's the solemn responsibility of each 'temporary' president to protect and nurture that noblest of all ideas - with integrity. This man, Mitt Romney, has shown - not through his experience, but through his actions and words - that he is unqualified to carry out that responsibility. -
I'd done table reads for my own screenplays, and I always thought they were so much fun. Why couldn't we do these for other classic screenplays and bring them to life? You can experience live theater, where you get to see plays produced by different directors and different casts, but there's really nothing like that for movie scripts. -
My faith experience, well, as you can imagine, you need a lot of faith to raise five boys. -
Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. -
Going to the theater is such a joyous experience. My dad would take my sister and me to plays when we were very young, like six or seven years old.
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- To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
- Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
- History develops, art stands still.
- The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
- The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.