"As an author, you can't expect a movie to be an illustration of the book. If that's what you hope for, you shouldn't sell the rights."

-- Bernhard Schlink

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“When God thought of mother, He must have laughed with satisfaction, and framed it quickly - so rich, so deep, so divine, so full of soul, power, and beauty, was the conception.”
“I have seen many things in my life, many things in war and I have cried may times in my life. But when the runner carries the flame into the stadium, and the birds are freed and all the flags in the world are flying, I cry. I must cry.”
“Not the shadow of a doubt crossed my mind of the purpose for which the Count had left the theatre. His escape from us, that evening, was beyond all question the preliminary only to his escape from London. The mark of the Brotherhood was on his arm-I felt as certain of it as if he had shown me the brand; and the betrayal of the Brotherhood was on his conscience-I had seen it in his recognition of Pesca.”
“Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God never blinks.”
“I think [Republicans] would really like to rip up that [Iran nuclear agreement] and get a new one, but that's going to be very difficult. You, of course, have Russia involved in that.”

Source : Source: abcnews.go.com
“How deceitful hope may be, yet she carries us on pleasantly to the end of life.”
“I've got a reason to believe we all be received in Graceland, Graceland, Memphis Tennessee.”
“I'm not a wanderer, which is funny because I'm on tour half the time. I'm a home, hearth and family kind of person.”

Source : Interview with Brian Howe, pitchfork.com. November 20, 2006.

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