Dontavion Wright Quotes & Sayings

Observe the persistence, in mankind's mythologies, of the legend about a paradise that men had once possessed, the city of Atlantis or the Garden of Eden or some kingdom of perfection, always behind us. The root of that legend exists, not in the past of the race, but in the past of every man. You still retain a sense - not as firm as a memory, but diffused like the pain of hopeless longing - that somewhere in the starting years of your childhood, before you had learned to submit, to absorb the terror of unreason and to doubt the value of your mind, you had known a radiant state of existence, you had known the independence of a rational consciousness facing an open universe. That is the paradise which you have lost, which you seek - which is yours for the taking. — Ayn Rand

When pure sincerity forms within, it is outwardly realized in other people's hearts. — Lao-Tzu

I had seen the world as either white or black.
It is only when I read the pages of her diary that I understood why the sky looked so grey. — Sanhita Baruah

Story was a blessing and a curse. A reason to stay and a reason to leave. — J.A. Huss

All good actors are very bright. You can't be stupid and a good actor. You may be inarticulate, you may not be highly educated, but all good actors are quick-witted, some of them dazzlingly so. All you do is guide them. — Richard Eyre

Nurture a tree today, and it will provide you shade tomorrow. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I have to say I enjoy physical comedy and I've always loved to kind of take risks. I don't like worrying too much about how I look or how I come across, so that can sometimes ... You know, I like to play those kinds of deluded but fun characters. — Amy Poehler

One of the most important keys to acting is curiosity. I am curious to the point of being nosy. What that means is you want to devour lives. You're eager to put on their shoes and wear their clothes and have them become a part of you. All people contain mystery, and when you act, you want to plumb that mystery until everything is known to you — Meryl Streep

My job as an actor is to cover and expose in varying allowance that - so that the audience can peek through the window to the people I create. — Lorraine Toussaint

You're too busy writing the next book to worry about Googling yourself all the time. — Annette Curtis Klause

A huge adrenaline rush is usually followed by a pretty low point. — Bode Miller

Having clients with a long-term orientation is crucial. Nothing else is as important to the success of an investment firm. — Seth Klarman

You," he whispered, bringing his hand to hover by my cheek.
"Are the most beautiful thing I have ever seen."
And then he touched me. — Jessica Verday

The two-war strategy was a product of the cold war, when we had to have the ability to fight the Russians on the plains of Europe and fight the Chinese on the Korean peninsula at the same time. That costs an awful lot of money. — Joe Klein