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“Movies will make you famous; Television will make you rich; But theatre will make you good.”
Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“I'm not going to let people who work in the United States Department of Justice have their characters be assailed without any basis.”
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“You need a human story to intersect those points of interest with real stakes on the line, and then things start to be fun, where you can see the ramifications, you see the impact on people's lives of big changes - like taking a man of science, like a surgeon, and robbing him of his understanding of the universe and forcing him into a newer and wider understanding.”
Source : Source: www.mtv.com
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“It seemed to me the basic definition of mental illness, this persistent, painful inability to simply be with someone else. It might be lifelong, or it might descend like a sudden catastrophe, this blankness between ourselves and the rest of the world. The blankness might not even be obvious to others. But on our side of that severed connection, it was hell, a life lived behind glass. The only difference between mild depression and severe schizophrenia was the amount of sound and air that seeped in.”
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“I will beg, will take to my knees, will listen to snow stroking air, a sky of gasps, will open my mouth, swallow, somewhere else the sky is falling, somewhere else it gets back up.”
Source : Bob Hicok (2007). “This clumsy living”, Univ of Pittsburgh Pr
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“I have always been taught to be proud of being Latina, proud of being Mexican, and I was. I was probably more proud of being a "label" than of being a human being, that's the way most of us were taught.”
Source : The Freedom Writers, Erin Gruwell (2007). “The Freedom Writers Diary (Movie Tie-in Edition): How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them”, p.86, Broadway Books
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“Let them fear bondage who are slaves to fear; the sweetest freedom is an honest heart.”
Source : John Ford (1827). “Dramatic works of John Ford ...”, p.274
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“'The Black Parade' is an epic, theatrical, orchestral, big record that is also a concept album.”