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• I think every character actor at some stage likes to carry a film. It can be extremely liberating to just come in for a scene or two and do your thing. But I find it frustrating if I'm just doing little bits here and there for too long.

  Brendan Gleeson

  Character, Thinking, Two

  "Brendan Gleeson: the character actor who steals the show". Interview with Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2010.

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• I am liberating man from the degrading chimera known as `conscience'.

  Adolf Hitler

  Men, Evil, Chimera

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• The lesson we have yet to learn from dogs, that could sustain us, is that having no apprehension of the past or future is not limiting but liberating.

  Susan Orlean

  Dog, Past, Pet

  Susan Orlean (2012). “Rin Tin Tin: The Life and Legend of the World's Most Famous Dog”, p.235, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?

  Elias Canetti

  Eye, People, Decision

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• To be deeply in love is, of course, a great liberating force.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Love Is, Deeply In Love, Force

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1973). “Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead”

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• It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.

  Quentin Crisp

  Freedom, Blessing, Simple

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• Once you accept that we're all imperfect it's the most liberating thing in the world. Then you can go around making mistakes and saying the wrong thing and tripping over on the street and all that and not feel worried.

  Paloma Faith

  Mistake, Acceptance, Imperfection

  "Paloma Faith: 'I wish I was more stupid'". Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. August 7, 2010.

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• Fortunately, historians are now beginning to recognise the historic role of Islam as a liberating force for peoples oppressed by the burdens of unjust social systems.

  Aly Khan

  Islam, Roles, Unjust

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• Democracy, which began by liberating man politically, has developed a dangerous tendency to enslave him through the tyranny of majorities and the deadly power of their opinion.

  Ludwig Lewisohn

  Men, Democracy, Majority

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• People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Thinking, People, Architecture

  "From Bauhaus to Koolhaas". Interview with Katrina Heron, www.wired.com. July 1, 1996.

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• The first step to truly living a good and fearless life, is accepting responsibility for your actions. Accepting what part you had in any situation. Difficult, to say the least, but liberating.

  Jann Arden

  Responsibility, Fearless, Firsts

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• I'm a little hibernating animal. Anonymity is one of my favorite things. I mean, that's why I moved to New York when I was like 18, because there, there are just so many people that there's no one and you're just lost. You're completely invisible and I find that very liberating.

  Ani DiFranco

  New York, Mean, Animal

  "Ani DiFranco, Then and Now". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. December 13, 2010.

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• Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.

  Sol LeWitt

  Art, Real, Years

  "Sol LeWitt by Saul Ostrow". Interview with Saul Ostrow, bombmagazine.org. October 1, 2003.

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• Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the given material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control.

  Earle Brown

  Art, Degrees, Cages

  "Classic Essays on Twentieth-century Music: A Continuing Symposium". Book by Richard Kostelanetz, ‎Joseph Darby, ‎Matthew Santa, 1996.

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• But no sooner had morning broken than he took hold of his whip and ceremoniously stepped out to address his slaves. Each blow was liberating, it was like unshaking proof of the great lie of God's existence.

  Juhani Peltonen

  Morning, Atheist, Lying

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• Knowledge is sacred and the choice to be informed or merely entertained in today's world is a very revealing test of the times.  Expanding your mind to penetrate the deeper meanings of life is not only liberating, it is crucial to your well-being, for knowledge is power, and how you use your power inevitably determines the course of your personal and collective life.

  Barbara Marciniak

  Choices, Mind, Use

  Barbara Marciniak (2010). “Path of Empowerment: New Pleiadian Wisdom for a World in Chaos”, p.3, New World Library

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• The only initiation which I advocate and which I look for with all the ardor of my Soul, is that by which we are able to enter into the Heart of God within us, and there make an Indissoluble Marriage, which makes us the Friend and Spouse of the Repairer … there is no other way to arrive at this Holy Initiation than for us to delve more and more into the depth of our Soul and to not let go of the prize until we have succeeded in liberating its lively and vivifying origin.

  Louis Claude de Saint-Martin

  Letting Go, Heart, Soul

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• Yesterday's truth is today's bullshit. Even yesterday's liberating insight is today's jail of stale explanation.

  Brad Blanton

  Yesterday, Jail, Bullshit

  Brad Blanton (1996). “Radical Honesty: How to Transform Your Life by Telling the Truth”, Dell

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• It's very liberating when you finally realize it's impossible to make everyone like you.

  John Mayer

  Impossible, Realizing, Like You

  "John Mayer’s CBS Sunday Morning Interview: ‘I Was Just A Jerk’", www.huffingtonpost.com. February 7, 2013.

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• Then I realized that secrecy is actually to the detriment of my own peace of mind and self, and that I could still sustain my belief in privacy and be authentic and transparent at the same time. It was a pretty revelatory moment, and there's been a liberating force that's come from it.

  Alanis Morissette

  Self, Mind, Belief

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• The Green Shore is an engrossing novel about political oppression, played out on an intimate family scale. Bakopoulos charts the subtle, gnawing pressures of life under the Greek junta - the steady drip of daily coercion - with an exacting empathy. In particular, her depiction of love under tyranny - by turns hesitant, furtive and liberating - is as astute as it is moving.

  Peter Ho Davies

  Moving, Empathy, Political

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• I so enjoy being old because for the first time I don't have to do anything-work, teach, study. I feel very good about myself-and at my age I can say no to anything now if I don't want to do it. What a liberating word.

  Bel Kaufman

  Age, Want, Firsts

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• Plus, doing a zombie movie is quite liberating. It's fun not to take myself seriously all the time.

  Sarah Polley

  Fun, Zombie, Plus

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• Penicillin was as liberating for gay sex as the pill had been for straight sex.

  Christopher Bram

  Sex, Gay, Pills

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• What a liberating thing to realize that our problems are probably our richest sources for rising to the ultimate virtue of compassion.

  Krista Tippett

  Compassion, Rising, Problem

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