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There's so many things that people do on a daily basis that they do as a way of defining who they are. But really, what defines who you are is when circumstances push you to the edge.

~Aisha Hinds

Topics: Basis Circumstances Daily Daily Basis Defines Defining Edge Many People Push Really Things Way Who You

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You can't control where you were born, the family you were born into, what you look like; you can't control any of those circumstances. The only thing you can control is how you react.

~Aisha Tyler

Topics: Any Born Circumstances Control Family How Like Look Only React The Only Thing Thing Those Were Where You

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Studying acting has been personally enriching because it has taught me to take the time to imagine what someone else's life experience might be like. To look deeply at how our pasts and the circumstances of our early childhoods mold us as people.

~Aja Naomi King

Topics: Acting Because Been Childhoods Circumstances Deeply Early Else Enriching Experience How Imagine Life Life Experience Like Look Me Might Mold Our People Personally Someone Studying Take Taught Time Us

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Some of the most important determinants of life paths arise through the most trivial of circumstances.

~Albert Bandura

Topics: Arise Circumstances Important Life Most Paths Some The Most Important Through Trivial

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That suspension of disbelief that's required as an actor to live truthfully in imaginary circumstances is different to what needs to happen as a director, in the sense that you are the master of all the moving parts. You create the world in every detail.

~Alex O'Loughlin

Topics: Actor Circumstances Create Detail Different Director Disbelief Every Happen Imaginary Live Master Moving Needs Parts Required Sense Suspension Truthfully World You

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Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.

~Alfred North Whitehead

Topics: Circumstances Even Finite Grasp Infinite Life Minds Much Our Out Possibilities Purpose Surrounded

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I've got to hear the rhythm of the sentences; I want the music of the prose. I want to see ordinary things transformed not by the circumstances in which I see them but by the language with which they're described. That's what I love when I read.

~Alice Mcdermott

Topics: Circumstances Got Hear Language Love Music Ordinary Ordinary Things Prose Read Rhythm See Sentences Them Things Transformed Want Which I See I Love

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We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.

~Allan Massie

Topics: Actions Circumstances Performed Response Responsible Which

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In real life, we do things out of character, constantly. A couple of days ago, my shoes were hurting, so I walked barefoot through New York. Someone who has known me my whole life would think that was so out of character. But I did it because of the circumstances.

~Allison Williams

Topics: Barefoot Because Character Circumstances Constantly Couple Days Did Hurting Known Life Me New New York Out Real Real Life Shoes Someone Things Think Through Walked Were Who Whole Would York

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Experimental economics is about conducting experiments: bringing economics into the laboratory or creating controlled conditions in the field that allow us to understand better what we are seeing in less controlled circumstances.

~Alvin E. Roth

Topics: About Allow Better Bringing Circumstances Conditions Conducting Controlled Creating Economics Experimental Experiments Field Laboratory Less Seeing Understand Us

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