"I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War."

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Source : "Q&A – Anson Mount (Cullen Bohannon)". AMCtv.com Interview, www.amc.com. November 2011.

Anson Mount

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“Energy is everything. Rubbing happy and sad together creates energy.”
“The man who forms the habit of beginning without finishing has simply formed the habit of failure.”
“They have this big book called the 'DSM-IV,' you know, that is supposedly written about crazy people, but I think it is a book that is written by crazy people!”
“I said, you know they refused Jesus, too. He said, you're not him.”
“I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people who don't read can sometimes lack. I know it seems like a contradiction in terms; after all reading is such a solitary, internalizing act that it appears to represent a disengagement from day-to-day life. But reading, and particularly the reading of fiction, encourages us to view the world in new and challenging ways...It allows us to inhabit the consciousness of another which is a precursor to empathy, and empathy is, for me, one of the marks of a decent human being.”

Source : John Connolly (2006). “The Book of Lost Things: A Novel”, p.345, Simon and Schuster
“To the King, one must give his possessions and his life; but honour is a possession of soul, and the soul is only God's.”
“A low line of shore was visible at first on the right between the movement of the waves and fog, but when we came further it was lost sight of, and nothing could be seen but the mist curling in the rigging, and a small circle of foam.”

Source : John Millington Synge (2008). “The Complete Works of J. M. Synge”, p.309, Wordsworth Editions
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