We must overcome the notion ...

We must overcome the notion that we must be regular. It robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.
We must overcome the notion that we must be regular. It robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.
 Uta Hagen

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I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

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The need to be loved and protected is at a peak when we feel abandoned and are particularly vulnerable to difficult circumstances.
 Uta Hagen
Since the time of the ancient Greeks a democracy has depended on its philosophers and creative artists. It can only flourish by continuous probing, prodding, and questioning of the social conditions under which man exists and tries to better himself. One of the first moves of a dictatorship is to stifle the artists and thinkers who have the ability to stir up dissent from any prescribed dogma which might enslave them. Because the artist can arouse the curiosity and conscience of his community, he becomes a threat to those who have taken power.
 Uta Hagen
I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.
 Uta Hagen
Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting intensely); a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality; the desire to communicate one's own experience and sensations, to make one's self heard and seen.
 Uta Hagen
I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go.
 Uta Hagen