I know you hear horror stories about child actors, but I think in my family when I did start acting it was never a big deal.
Every patriot believes his country better than any other country. . . In its active manifestation-it is fond of killing-patriotism would be well enough if it were simply defensive, but it is also aggressive. . . Patriotism deliberately and with folly aforethought subordinates the interests of a whole to the interests of a part. . . Patriotism is fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave and blind as a stone.