The idea of Christian perfection, which began in the ancient monasteries and spread to the world as an ideal, is one of the most appealing, demanding and ultimately hopeless notions of the spiritual l...
I always tell actors not to use their face for nothing. Don’t start scribbling on the paper until you have something to write.
Va, et advienne que pourra. Go, and come what may.
She had an understanding about people, and compassion—she didn’t talk about it, but you heard how she spoke and saw how she behaved.
It concerns the point at which courage is the logical and sometimes the only possible outcome of integrity.
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However we assess the relief of the siege of Orleans and the subsequent successes in the Loire Valley, the military proficiency of the French shocked the English to the point that French victory now s...
She began to choose her own projects, Marilyn
Grace was tough and strong—mentally, emotionally and physically—and she cut through a lot of the nonsense. Hollywood was like a game for her. She was also a good businesswoman, and this allowed her to...
She was determined to go places without leaning on anybody or using influence. Added Judith, She left a prominent Philadelphia family to become a struggling actress in New York. It was an independent...
About this time, Joan’s parents made formal arrangements with a family who had an eligible son, to whom Joan was soon engaged. We know little of this episode in her life—neither the identity of the ma...
What Joan impressed on the men by her faith and her actions, then, had more to do with the things of God that the machinery of war or prevailing politics. For her the struggle against English occupati...
Decades later, we do not watch her as a movie star playing at or around a role, nor are we conscious of her gestures, her slight raising of the eyebrows, the sudden drop of her voice. We do not observ...
Joan's claim that God had France in HIs care because France was sacred to him may not be merely a medieval trope, embarrassingly old-fashioned language that today we must expunge from our vocabularies...
Less is more was one of Meisner’s mantras. Silence has myriad meanings. In the theater, silence is an absence of words, but never an absence of meaning. Most of all, Meisner urged his students to thin...
And what of Joan's presence among so many young, armed men? Perhaps of all the nobles and military men, the Duke of Alencon - that dedicated, courageous and skillful commander - may be trusted most. A...
When we renounce our fear of life and give up trying to have it under our control—that is, when we acknowledge our contingency and utter dependence on God—then God comes to us and turns us toward Hims...
Whenever anyone uttered a word against gay men or women, Grace was outspoken. You shouldn’t criticize people who are homosexual, she told her friend Prudy Wise. It can be very destructive, and it is s...
All I want is my own name and a modest job to buy sugar for my coffee! You can’t believe it, can you—you can’t believe that a woman has to be crazy-out-of-her-mind to live alone—in one room—by herself...
Centuries later, it is often presumed that such a pious tone and environment would create boredom, cynicism, and even open rebellion among any militia. But in an era when faith was a fact of life, pra...
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