"You want to be on your toes; You don't want to be in a Nic Cage movie and just have him blow by you as an actor."

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Source : "Harold Perrineau on Lost, Oz, and co-starring with Nicolas Cage in Seeking Justice". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 18, 2012.

Harold Perrineau

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“My agent in London told me, after Never Let Me Go, because I loved doing that so much, "If you're on a lucky streak and you're doing well, you should only take a part, if you can't bear the idea of anyone else doing it." That's been the case since then, with Drive and Shame and the play (The Seagull), and the stuff that's going on, like Gatsby. I would have been devastated, if I hadn't gotten those jobs.”
“I am this space my body believes in.”

Source : Yusef Komunyakaa (2013). “Pleasure Dome: New and Collected Poems”, p.139, Wesleyan University Press
“Agnostics are just atheists without balls.”
“Comrade Mao, whether he was crossing 'a sea of surging waves' or scaling 'a mountain pass impregnable as iron' always held unwaveringly to his course, setting a shining example for the Chinese Communist Party.”
“Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.”
“You can't do anything to be funny. That's cringeworthy. If your humor comes out of a place of love every time, you don't make the joke bigger than you. The funniest comedians are in touch with their emotional level.”
“Real destiny takes everything-the last drop of blood, and strip out your veins to be sure-and gives it back doubled. Quadrupled. A thousand-fold! But you can't give halves. You have to give it all. I know. I swear. I've come back from the dead to speak the truth to you. Real destiny gives you a mountain of life, and puts you on top of it.”
“If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.”

Source : Richard Ford (2012). “The Sportswriter”, p.101, A&C Black

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