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“I am not a tentative person. Whatever I do, I give up my whole self to it ...”
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“I think we fall in love and become adults and become citizens in a way by writing stories about ourselves.”
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“Working on a novel is very solitary and I get to be the boss. I'm the dictator, so I win every battle. So, in that sense, novels are easier because you don't have to answer to anyone. And then, you go into something like film and there are more cooks in the kitchen, so to speak.”
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“I'm really an artist of feeling. I like creating things when it feels right.”
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“You'll never learn to act in Hollywood. Not in a thousand years.”
Source : "Child of Fate - Margaret Sullavan". Book by Lawrence J. Quirk (p. 77), 1986.
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“I just know I'm going to be an actress. I want it so bad.”
Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 
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“It is fashionable nowadays to talk about the endless riches of the sea. The ocean is regarded as a sort of bargain basement, but I don't agree with that estimate. People don't realize that water in the liquid state is very rare in the universe. Away from earth it is usually a gas. This moisture is a blessed treasure, and it is our basic duty, if we don't want to commit suicide, to preserve it.”
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“I don't have any real spirituality in my life - I'm kind of an atheist - but when music can take me to the highest heights, it's almost like a spiritual feeling. It fills that void for me.”
Source : "Jack Black: On Music, Mayhem And Murder". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, listen.sdpb.org. April 23, 2012.
