Great actors can transform, but sometimes there’s just this person who speaks right to the role. When they walk in the room, you know they’re that character. That is something you can’t teach an actor; that’s something that’s luck and chance. David Leitch Read Quote
In the imagination, Harlem will always be the spiritual capital of black excellence in America. Cheo Hodari Coker Read Quote
Eventually the bad stuff I’m writing turns into better stuff. Other times, I’ve just walked away from what I was working on, and figured I’d have a better perspective when I came back to it. Margaret Haddix Read Quote
The most interesting character to me is someone who is stuck in the no man’s land between Belief and Unbelief, Faith and Faithlessness. I’m capitalizing like a German, but it doesn’t matter whether it’s faith in a person or in God, or belief in science or whatever, it’s the desperate in-between state that makes for interesting dramatic tension. Richard Dooling Read Quote
Higher SAT scores mean better college matriculation rates. So it’s no wonder that private schools in ultra-competitive environments would grease the qualifying process as much as possible. Eliot Schrefer Read Quote
I think the other honest attraction was that I just grew up loving watching TV and loving watching film, and there’s so many directors and actors that I dreamed of working with, I just really wanted to take a crack at it and see if I could ever work with some of those. David Schwimmer Read Quote
As proud as we are of this city and as extraordinary as it is, all of south Louisiana and all of the Gulf Coast is a very special place, and the federal government has underinvested in it year after year after year, whether it’s education or health care. Mary Landrieu Read Quote
I live in Los Angeles, which is the youngest place – there’s no history to Los Angeles. Everything’s fake. Ben Feldman Read Quote
