Quotes About Immersion

Everything can become a meditation if you live it totally and intensely. And then your life becomes whole.

Any time you play a character for a long period of time, regardless of how close it is to you, it infiltrates your life. It's impossible for it not to.

It is very important for an actor or actress to look around at everything and everyone and never forget about real life.

In order to represent life on the stage, we must rub elbows with life, live ourselves

My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.

My ideal relationship with a book is that I will read it for the first time entirely unspoiled. I won't know anything whatsoever about it, it will be wonderful, it will be exciting and layered and complex and I will be excited by it, and I will re-read it every year or so for the rest of my life, discovering more about it every time, and every time remembering the circumstances in which I first read it.

There are books you can fall into and pull up over your head.

The liturgical year is the year that sets out to attune the life of the Christian to the life of Jesus, the Christ. It proposes, year after year, to immerse us over and over again into the sense and substance of the Christian life until, eventually, we become what we say we are -- followers of Jesus all the way to the heart of God. The liturgical year is an adventure in human growth, an exercise in spiritual ripening.

Here is where I become more than an observer and enter the story in my own right.

The child should never be required to learn the name of anything in the nature-study work; but the name should be used so often and so naturally in his presence, that he will learn it without being conscious of the process

I like figuring out where I need to be mentally so that I'm not thinking about the camera and that it's second nature. I want to get to a place where I can exist within the confines of what you can do with filmmaking and not have to think about it.

Kinds of water drown us. Kinds of water do not.

Az alámerülés az éj rohadt rubinjába a szabadság és a rossz logika versengésévé változott.

Like any child, I slid into myself perfectly fitted, as a diver meets her reflection in a pool. Her fingertips enter the fingertips on the water, her wrists slide up her arms. The diver wraps herself in her reflection wholly, sealing it at the toes, and wears it as she climbs rising from the pool, and ever after.

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. She read books as one would breathe ether, to sink in and die.

In the humdrum routine of personal existence, History did not matter. We were simply happy or unhappy, depending on the day. The more immersed we were in work and family, said to be reality, the greater was our sense of unreality.

The most intense part of her life is the time she spends immersed in the books she has insatiably consumed ever since she learned to read.

The thing of sitting in an audience and going into a dream-like state with several hundred other people that are sharing exactly what you're feeling is a profound event.

I like being able to go to the cinema and sit and spend time observing something without thinking about plot or what one character is saying. I feel like I'm able to connect on a much more profound level.

I like to be very involved in any project that I am doing.

As a writer who has collaborated on projects, you give your life over to that project.

I obsess over things... especially my book projects. It can be very time consuming.

If you ask anybody that knows me properly, they know that I give myself fully.

If you are going to do a film properly you have to give yourself completely to it.