A Quote by Iris Murdoch

A letter is a barrier, a reprieve, a charm against the world, an almost infallible method of acting at a distance.

Iris Murdoch

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Acting Against Almost Barrier Charm Distance Infallible Letter Method Reprieve World

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Iris Murdoch
Irish - Novelist
July 15, 1919 - February 8, 1999

I believe that as long as a single man may try, any unjustifiable barrier against his efforts is a barrier against mankind.

Robert Kennedy

People think of travel, of movement, as a kind of reprieve from life. But they're wrong. Movement isn't a reprieve. There is no reprieve. Movement is our permanent state.

Adam Ross

My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible.

Mahatma Gandhi

I consider myself a method singer, not a method actor. I applied method acting to singing.

Tony Bennett

Method acting is a label I don't really understand, because there's a method to everybody's acting.

Dougray Scott

I there represent that I sent notice of my method to Mr. Leibnitz before he sent notice of his method to me, and left him to make it appear that he had found his method before the date of my letter.

Isaac Newton

An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct.

Voltaire

An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Konrad Adenauer

Technology is far more than a method, it is a world in itself. As a method, it is superior in almost every respect. But only where it is left to itself, as in gigantic structures of engineering, there technology reveals its true nature.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Science is not infallible, but it has something religion lacks: a process of testing claims against real-world observations.

PZ Myers

When I'm writing, I try to have the mask of my character on as I'm walking through the world. When I'm not at my desk, the rest of the time, I try to stay in that character and see the world the way that character would It's almost like method acting in a way — keeping the character close the way the actor keeps a script close and always tries to be in character.

Stewart O'Nan

I think people have a misinterpretation of Method acting, because Method acting is a wonderful thing. The thing is, if you take it too seriously, it's like religion. You start to think it's the truth. But it's not the truth. It's just a way to get somewhere.

Vincent Cassel

Distance is no barrier to the love of God.

Max Anders

No one is really a method actor, everyone has their way of going about it, preparing for it, but method is preparation, it's what you do to prepare. So my method is to read the script. Some actors' method is to read the script a hundred times and in the doing of it, to immerse themselves in as much of the reality as possible. Me, I believe strictly in acting. If I am out of breath, I'm out of breath. I ain't running nowhere.