What the actor is in private life, he is to a large extent on the stage, because he cannot conceal himself and his true personality from his audience.
A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it.
Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.
From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large.
When I meet large women who walk with confidence and are articulate and really have an understanding of how they walk in this world, I love them so deeply for being able to overcome such unbelievable odds.
I love it now that a large minority of people who are handicapped prefer to call themselves crippled. This is all part of the game, like queer theory.
My personality resembles my designs to a large extent. I'm in sync with myself and I'm transparent, just like my designs.
If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage.
It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our unpredictable dreams come true
There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
Most large companies structure their affairs so that they minimize their tax payments. As long as you do it within the law, it's OK.
Our faith may be big enough to elicit a miracle, but our faith is seldom large enough to embrace it once it actually happens.
It's interesting if you can talk about the large moments and also the small moments to understand the deepest complexities of a man by trying to imagine who they are.
I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys.
Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit.
Japan can't get anything on the market very cheaply because it has a large, relatively highly paid workforce which you can't fire.
The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
I owe my first inkling of the problem of infinity to a large biscuit tin that was a source of vertiginous mystery during my childhood.
Clearly, high energy prices will have a large negative effect on the California economy and could possibly drag the rest of the nation into a recession.
What I learned is that acting is to a large extent about trying to stave off self-doubt long enough to be natural and real onstage.
