“Forget about having an identity crisis and get some identity capital. … Do something that adds value to who you are. Do something that's an investment in who you might want to be next.”
“If we're all living in ourselves and mistaking it for life, then we're devaluing and desensitizing life.”
— Thandie Newton
Thandie Newton: Embracing otherness, embracing myself
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“[We assume] that the self is an actual living thing, but it's not. It's a projection which our clever brains create in order to cheat ourselves from the reality of death.”
— Thandie Newton
Thandie Newton: Embracing otherness, embracing myself
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“I can hardly find the words to describe the peace I felt when I was acting. My dysfunctional self could actually plug in to another self, not my own, and it felt so good.”
— Thandie Newton
Thandie Newton: Embracing otherness, embracing myself
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