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Quotes About Inhabiting

When I take up a role, I start believing that I'm that person only.
~ Deepti Naval
She knew then, if without the words to express it, that what she was studying was not simply music but beauty, and that she wanted to inhabit, completely, that beauty—and
~ Daphne Kalotay
Making art was really about the problem of the soul, of losing it. It was a technique for inhabiting the world. For not dissolving into it.
~ Rachel Kushner
He lacked any musicality, for example; that was a disappointment. He lacked a kind of easy friendliness he could see in other people. Finally, and especially after the accident, he lacked a sense of fully inhabiting his own life, as if he were still, somehow, tumbling through that tumbling air. On it swirled around him as he struggled to right himself, and sometimes fought a powerful urge for it to simply stop. That was the biggest deficit of all. That impacted everything.
~ Jean Hanff Korelitz
In my sleepwalking years, I learned the existence of another dimension. I do not inhabit it any longer. But somehow, it continues to inhabit me.
~ Liz Jensen
Dictators are ludicrous characters, and, you know, in my career and in my life, I've always enjoyed sort of inhabiting these ludicrous, larger-than-life characters that somehow exist in the real world.
~ Sacha Baron Cohen
You're not inhabiting the form anymore. Not too quick are you?" he said looking me in the eye.
~ April Crawford
Maybe the most sacred function of memory is just that: to render the distinction between past, present, and future ultimately meaningless; to enable us at some level of our being to inhabit that same eternity which it is said that God himself inhabits.
~ Frederick Buechner
I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes.
~ Ruth Rendell
God is the one in whom "we live and move and have our being."6 Notice how the language works. Where are we in relation to God? We are in God; we live in God, move in God, have our being in God. God is not "out there," but "right here," all around us.
~ Marcus J. Borg
Could it be that the dream-soul inhabiting this inferior body was desperately struggling to speak things which the simple and halting tongue of dulness could not utter?
~ H.P. Lovecraft
It's fun when you create a world to inhabit it and see the other characters from grounds eye view.
~ Mike White
I have always worked from that place, that if you are going to inhabit someone and get under their eyes, you need to have empathy.
~ Dominic Cooper
To play a character is to inhabit the world and the life of that character.
~ Kelli O'Hara
We were inhabiting a space where it didn't feel like we had much company, a space critics might dismiss as a compromised middle, but I imagined as a radical center.
~ Bono
I find that I kind of have to sink into the character.
~ Casey Affleck
I'm trying to eliminate every vestige of my own personality, style, approach and get into somebody else's skin. Sometimes I feel I've accomplished it. But when I don't, I'm nobody at all, having left myself at home.
~ Judy Holliday
From several of the Indian tribes inhabiting the country bordering on Lake Erie purchases have been made of lands on conditions very favorable to the United States, and, as it is presumed, not less so to the tribes themselves.
~ James Monroe
Sometimes you become a character, and sometimes the character becomes you.
~ William Zabka
Making art was really about the problem of the soul, of losing it. It was a technique for inhabiting the world. For not dissolving into it.
~ Rachel Kushner
Derrida's texts aren't located "outside" the texts they examine, in a position of attempted mastery or privileged authority. He doesn't simply reject or oppose them. It's more a strategy of inhabiting them, making a destabilizing passage through them, undoing their presuppositions and desedimenting them: stirring up their underlying levels.
~ Jeff Collins
People entering the bars on First Avenue gave up their bodies. Then only the demons inhabiting us could be seen.
~ Denis Johnson
Naturepitiless in a pitiless universeis certainly not concerned with the survival of Americans or, for that matter, of any of the two billion people now inhabiting this earth. Hence, our destiny, with the aid of God, remains in our own hands.
~ J. William Fulbright
The full station threat assessment for murder was sitting at a baseline 7 percent. (To make it drop lower than that we'd have to be on an uninhabited planet.) (I've never been on a contract on an uninhabited planet because if I was on the planet on a contract then we'd be inhabiting it.)
~ Martha Wells