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1. "It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you." ~ Lillian Hellman
2. "Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty." ~ Lillian Hellman
3. "It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it." ~ Lillian Hellman
4. "People change and forget to tell each other." ~ Lillian Hellman
5. "Things start out as hopes and end up as habits." ~ Lillian Hellman
6. "We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them." ~ Lillian Hellman
7. "Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth." ~ Lillian Hellman
8. "I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak." ~ Lillian Hellman
9. "I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashion." ~ Lillian Hellman
10. "Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible." ~ Lillian Hellman
11. "God forgives those who invent what they need." ~ Lillian Hellman
12. "If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves." ~ Lillian Hellman
13. "It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute." ~ Lillian Hellman
14. "It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour." ~ Lillian Hellman
15. "Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight." ~ Lillian Hellman
16. "My father was often angry when I was most like him." ~ Lillian Hellman
17. "Lonely people, in talking to each other, can make each other lonelier." ~ Lillian Hellman
18. "Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?" ~ Lillian Hellman
19. "Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels." ~ Lillian Hellman
20. "You lose your manners when you are poor." ~ Lillian Hellman
21. "Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty." ~ Lillian Hellman
22. "What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth." ~ Lillian Hellman
23. "Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view." ~ Lillian Hellman
24. "Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped." ~ Lillian Hellman
25. "Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice." ~ Lillian Hellman
26. "I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself." ~ Lillian Hellman
27. "Mengejek adalah cara yang sangat tidak menyenangkan untuk menyatakan kebenaran." ~ Lillian Hellman
28. "Old paint on a canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to see the original lines: a tree will show through a woman's dress, a child makes way for a dog, a large boat is no longer on an open sea. That is called pentimento because the painter "repented," changed his mind. Perhaps it would be as well to say that the old conception, replaced by a later choice, is a way of seeing and then seeing again. That is all I mean about the people in this book. The paint has aged and I wanted to see what was there for me once, what is there for me now." ~ Lillian Hellman

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A lot of actors on film sets... very often they're not paying attention to the physical world around them. I think through studying art, I've always had that awareness and that's something that I've wanted to bring in to go beyond acting... As a form of expression, they are intrinsically linked."
Author: Andy Serkis

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