Quote by Derek Jacobi
Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you re

Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to peoples knowledge of those characters. – Derek Jacobi

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I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination. – Derek Jacobi

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Imagination
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I think my parents were happy that Id gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought, Well if acting doesnt work for him, he can always become a history teacher or something. Fortunately, the acting worked out. – Derek Jacobi

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teacher
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Ultimately its a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions and situations and see how you would react. – Derek Jacobi

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Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated. – Thomas Bulfinch

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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract. – Talib Kweli

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Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge. – Dante Alighieri

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The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road. – James Thurber

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Knowledge

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth. – Harry S. Truman

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The thing about science fiction is that its totally wide open. But its wide open in a conditional way. – Octavia Butler

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