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“Luck influences everything in life, but nothing beats setting goals and striving body and soul to achieve them.”

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Toyotomi Hideyoshi was a significant samurai, politician, and military leader in Japan's Sengoku and early Edo periods, known as one of the Three Great Unifiers of Japan. He originally served as a general under Oda Nobunaga and later became the founder of the Toyotomi clan. Hideyoshi played a crucial role in unifying Japan and establishing the Toyotomi regime. more

“An actor must communicate his author's given message--comedy, tragedy, serio- comedy; then comes his unique moment, as he is confronted by the looked-for, yet at times unexpected, reaction of the audience. This split second is his; he is in command of his medium; the effect vanishes into thin air; but that moment has a power all its own and, like power in any form, is stimulating and alluring.”

Moments Form Actors Given Acting Power Audience Comedy Air Effects Messages Unique Tragedy Communicate Reactions Command Mediums Unexpected That Moment Splits Alluring Thin Air

Book:The Fabric of Memory

Source: The Fabric of Memory

“Human beings are distinguished by a capacity for experience as well as by their behavior, and homosexuality is as much a matter ofemotion as of genital manipulation.... As we each examine our own sense of identity we realize how much more complex is the question of homosexuality than a mere Kinsey-like computation of orgasms.”

Humans Wells Matter Realizing Human Beings Identity Behavior Capacity Mere Complexes Manipulation Homosexuality Distinguished Computation Kinsey

Book:Homosexual; oppression and liberation

Source: Homosexual; oppression and liberation

“It is the business of thought to define things, to find the boundaries; thought, indeed, is a ceaseless process of definition. It is the business of Art to give things shape.”

Giving Art Process Shapes Definitions Boundaries

Author:Vance Palmer

“Here is the mistake of the cut-and-dried man of culture. He goes about with the secret of having learned to appreciate the "grandstyle." He has lived in Homer till he can recall the roll of that many-sounding sea. He has pored over the lofty and pictorial thought of Plato till he begins to pique himself upon its grandeur. His fancy has been fed on the quaint old-world genius of Herodotus, his judgment on the melancholy wisdom of Tacitus and the complacent cynicism of Gibbon--and of all this he is conscious and proud.”

Quote by Toyotomi Hideyoshi

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