quotes about Adrenaline Rush

“Theater people work by instinct. I've never known a really calculated artistic decision.”

“I would love to play Nefertiti or Cleopatra or the Queen of Sheba. We preserve more male history than we do female. We have to preserve [female history]. No more complaining. We have to do it.”

“My family wasn't terribly affluent and looked upon money very carefully as something that had to be saved, not spent. My father built the ducting that took air into the copper mines and made about 6 d a yard in the Thirties, which was good money back then.”

“I'm looking forward to playing some really despicable characters at some point in my career so I can branch out and stretch those acting muscles. But I wouldn't want to do that on a regular basis.”

“...arranging the journey was so difficult. Getting home again was much easier.”

Source : Thor Heyerdahl (1958). “Aku-Aku The Secret of Easter Island”

“The man who invented the telescope found out more about heaven than the closed eyes of prayer ever discovered.”

“The effort to untangle the human words from the divine seems not only futile to me but also unnecessary, since God works with what is. God uses whatever is usable in a life, both to speak and to act, and those who insist on fireworks in the sky may miss the electricity that sparks the human heart.”

“If you are sure that you are about to fail, then this strange and serene calmness can come over you or the most abject fear and panic and feeling of helplessness.”

“Art is craft, not inspiration.”

“I tell you I look forward with terror to her [Germany] making war upon us again in ten years.”

Source : "The Life and Letters of Sir Austen Chamberlain: Vol. II" by Sir Charles Petrie, Cassell, (p. 263), 1940.