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“One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel.”
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“I'm a physical type of actor and love projects in which I can get physical. The more action, the better.”
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“I don't do special effects. I do characters. I do creatures.”
Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 
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“I want a minister to be in charge of a line department so they have clear political accountability.”
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“How is it possible on the one hand, for example, to behave as if nothing on earth were more important than literature, and on the other fail to see that wherever one looks, people are struggling against hunger and will necessarily consider that the most important thing is what they earn at the end of the month? Because this is where he (the writer) is confronted with a new paradox: while all he wanted was to write for those who are hungry, he now discovers that it is only those who have plenty to eat who have the leisure to take notice of his existence.”
Source : Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 07, 2008.
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“One wellcultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth 100 shallow faculties. The first law of success in this day, when so many things are clamoring for attention, is concentration-to bend all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor to the left.”
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“Saw has been a unique experience in that Ive had the opportunity to work with some really great artists, and everyone has contributed in so many different ways, in all of the different departments of a film crew.”
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“It is possible to increase paper-money income to any amount by debasing the currency. But real income can only be increased by working harder or more efficiently, saving more, investing more, and producing more.”
