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“Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates.”

Sometimes Faces Watches Objects Strange Personality Sight Contemplating Towers Statues Edifice Inanimate Objects

Book:Ninety-three

Source: Ninety-three

“When I was eleven I stopped dreaming the dreams that didn't come true, I stopped talking to people who didn't listen, I lost hope and I retreated. I assumed that the root of the problem was that I was too strange for the real world. That being the case, I created a charming and dynamic personality to make the necessary forays into the Outside, and I kept my strangeness for myself; my own peculiar jewels under lock and key.”

“There's things that I can do as an actor that I couldn't do in any other form of life and I've got a strange personality. But film requires strange people, so I've got a nice comfy home.”

People I Can Home Film Form Actors Can Do Nice Strange Personality

Author:Denzel Washington

“Did you ever look into the personalities of male cooks, Army, logging camp, etc.? They're all supposed to be crazy, incomprehensible, contemptible. And angry. The act of feeding adult males seems to have strange personality effects.”

Looks Seems Crazy Effects Strange Personality Adults Army Angry Males Supposed To Be Cooks Etc Camps Feeding Being Crazy Logging

Author:James Tiptree Jr.

“Behind my work was ambition, behind my love was personality, behind my purity was fear, behind my guidance the thirst for power. Now they are vanishing and I drift. I come, Mother, I come, in Thy warm bosom, floating wheresoever Thou takest me, in the voiceless, in the strange, in the wonderland, I come - a spectator, no more an actor.”

Mother Actors Behinds Strange Personality Ambition Warm Guidance Purity Thirst Floating Spectators Bosoms Wonderland Vanishing Voiceless Thirst For Power

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“But live you get the chance every night to rework it and change it and hone it. But then you get the false, weird oddness of being able to look at it and say: "Well that's weird, because last night they laughed at that and yet they didn't tonight. So what did I do? Nothing was different." You have that strange thing of being able to tell within five minutes what an audience is like. Very quickly an audience gets a personality and you start to think: "What is it about you all; you all hate it, don't you?" Then you come out and have friends in and they say: "It was brilliant!"”

Thinking Different Night Hate Chance Audience Strange Personality Brilliant Last Night

Author:Reece Shearsmith

“We all have a family, whether we like it or not; we all come from somewhere, and there's something strange in the way you have, with siblings, two or three personalities yoked together for life. You grow up thinking those family relationships are set in stone and then you get older and realize they're not. They're always shifting.”

Thinking Together Realizing Growing Up Strange Personality Sibling Family Relationship

Author:Maggie O'Farrell

“As other authors have realized, heat can have a strange effect on us, can cause odd chemical reactions in the brain. Heat can bring out secrets; it can change people's personalities.”

Secret Brain Strange Personality Odd

Author:Maggie O'Farrell

“On a purely personal level, it's very strange, because as a kid, Superman informed my personality. Now I've been given the job of forming Superman's personality and, in some ways, drawing on my own background.”

Way Kids Jobs Given My Own Levels Strange Personality Drawing Backgrounds

Author:J. Michael Straczynski

“What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.”

Beautiful Teaching Strange Personality Goodness Illusion Wisest

Book:The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Short Stories

Source: The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Short Stories