[To date, Shane Mungit remains Weller's] most interesting role. I thought Richard [Greenberg] did an amazing job of writing such a strangely sympathetic, but dangerous, narrow-minded young man. He was an amazingly complicated character. ... I just worked on the sympathetic part. To me, what made that character wonderful was his intense, emotional need. That was the main challenge.
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In passing winds it drowns,
But breathes, like perfect joys,
... FREDERICK TENNYSON We have no right to ask when a sorrow comes, 'Why did this happen to me?' unless we ask the same que... FREDERICK KEONIG I do my thing and you do yours. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are ... FREDERICK PERLS In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs ar... FREDERICK BUECHNER The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery. FREDERICK DOUGLASS A doctrine capable of being stated only in obscure and involved terms is open to reasonable suspicio... FREDERICK POLLOCK What would it profit thee to be the first
Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever,
A thi... FREDERICK TENNYSON Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something. FREDERICK SMITH The only real failure in life is the failure to try. FREDERICK SMITH Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without p... FREDERICK DOUGLASS Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plo... FREDERICK DOUGLASS Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plow... FREDERICK DOUGLASS Now whatever the origin of this apparently meaningless jumble of ideas may have been, it is really a... FREDERICK SODDY No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end faste... FREDERICK DOUGLASS Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations. FREDERICK SANGER The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery. FREDERICK DOUGLASS To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of ... FREDERICK DOUGLASS My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small Am... FREDERICK REINES It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. FREDERICK DOUGLASS It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm,... FREDERICK DOUGLASS The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion. FREDERICK DOUGLASS After taking my B.A. degree in 1939 I remained at the University for a further year to take an advan... FREDERICK SANGER Without a struggle, there can be no progress. FREDERICK DOUGLASS A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any p... FREDERICK DOUGLASS Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work. FREDERICK DOUGLASS I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other p... FREDERICK DOUGLASS I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. FREDERICK DOUGLASS One and God make a majority. FREDERICK DOUGLASS As the chapters took shape, a change came over her. It was the double-sided recognition that this bo... FREDERICK WEISEL Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotles... FREDERICK BUECHNER If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child. FREDERICK BUECHNER These hands which stretch out, implore, beg, then rise to the head in a gesture of calamity. FREDERICK LEBOYER Nature is in austere mood, even terrifying, withal majestically beautiful. FREDERICK SODDY America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the fu... FREDERICK DOUGLASS To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some exte... FREDERICK SODDY I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and th... FREDERICK DOUGLASS Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things... FREDERICK DOUGLASS It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowl... FREDERICK SANGER A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a gre... FREDERICK DOUGLASS It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Hol... FREDERICK BUECHNER I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave. FREDERICK DOUGLASS There is not a man beneath the canopy of Heaven who does not know that slavery is wrong for him. FREDERICK DOUGLASS A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once h... FREDERICK SEITZ I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted FREDERICK DOUGLASS In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky-her grand old woods-her... FREDERICK DOUGLASS The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery. FREDERICK DOUGLASS Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one clas... FREDERICK DOUGLASS Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery ... FREDERICK BUECHNER