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“Shaping it is something I would expect to do together with a writer, because that's a director's job.”
Source : "Ken Loach and Paul Laverty". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2007. 
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“Mr Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I will nip him in the bud.”
Source : Attributed
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“They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win.”
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“They yell at me to be dignified. But what are the dignified people like? The people who are held up as examples of me? They are snobs. Frightful snobs I'm a curiosity in Hollywood. I'm a big freak, because I'm myself!”
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“Of course, now I am too old to be much of a fisherman, and now of course I usually fish the big waters alone, although some friends think I shouldn't. Like many fly fishermen in western Montana where the summer days are almost Arctic in length, I often do not start fishing until the cool of the evening. Then in the Arctic half-light of the canyon, all existence fades to a being with my soul and memories and the sounds of the Big Blackfoot River and a four-count rhythm and the hope that a fish will rise.”
Source : Norman Maclean, Barry Moser (1989). “A River Runs Through It”, p.161, University of Chicago Press
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“I can't compare family to athletics.”
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“I believe, in my prime, I could have fought with anybody alive.”
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“O seasons, O castles, What soul is without flaws? All its lore is known to me, Felicity, it enchants us all.”
