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-- Charles Bukowski

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“There's so much with my character in 'Dredd' that I identify with. She's my favorite character I think I've ever played. She's the most dynamic and fascinating woman that I could even imagine playing, so I love her. What I love about her is that her sensitivity is her greatest strength.”
“He's very fast and if he gets a yard ahead of himself nobody will catch him.”
“There are enough churches already, but the world still needs salvation.”
“Is it not a rather fantastic historical irony that the torture techniques that the North Vietnamese used against McCain that forced him to offer a videotaped false confession... are now the techniques the Bush administration is using to gain "intelligence" about terror networks. How is it possible to know that everything John McCain once said on videotape for the enemy was false, because it was coerced, and yet assert that everything we torture out of terror suspects using exactly the same techniques, is true?”

Source : "Bush, McCain, Torture". "The Daily Dish", www.theatlantic.com. July 02, 2008.
“Going from 'Shark Night' to 'Piranha,' a guy holding a fish on a stick in front of you that they're going to replace in post-production, it's a lot different than seeing this animatronic shark that, if you get caught up in the moment, looks, acts and you sometimes think could be real.”

Source : "Exclusive: Chris Zylka Talks SHARK NIGHT 3D and THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 31, 2011.
“If I fall over and make mistakes, I'll pick myself back up and hope for the best and try to conduct myself with as much authenticity and moral code.”
“My memory is certainly in my hands. I can remember things only if I have a pencil and I can write with it and I can play with it. ... I think your hand concentrates for you. I don't know why it should be so.”
“The hippy movement was a failure.”

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