"One unexpectedly striking moment, when Tom Amandes as Lincoln, recites the Gettysburg Address, not in booming, this-is-a-great-speech style, but casually, as if chatting over dinner. The approach elevates the words."

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Source : "The Man Who Protected Lincoln" by Neil Genzlinger, www.nytimes.com. February 14, 2013.

Neil Genzlinger

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“And I just think that to introduce an unknown Shakespeare is thrilling, too - not to do Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet, to do the richer Shakespeare. People will come to this and not know the story.”
“As he flushed, an unexpected realization hit him. This is the Pope's toilet, he thought. I just took a leak in the Pope's toilet. He had to chuckle. The Holy Throne.”
“If you want to know what it means to be happy, look at a flower, a bird, a child; they are perfect images of the kingdom. For they live from moment to moment in the eternal now with no past and no future.”

Source : "The Way to Love : The Last Meditations of Anthony de Mello". Book by Anthony de Mello, 1995.
“You don't have to be afraid because we're all the same”

Source : Song: A Little Too Much, Album: Handwritten, 2015
“My business was born out of my frustration with other cashback schemes. I wanted a more curated service than the other sites offer.”

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“What is MTV doing and what is the hegemonic culture industry promoting in gangsta rap? It is the glorification of violence for the sake of violence, the violence itself, like consumption for the sake of consumption, hypermasculinity writ-large with an adapted potency.”
“Surpassing my achievements feels incredible; I want to replicate that again and again.”
“I want to make beautiful paintings. But I don't make beautiful paintings by putting beautiful paint on a canvas with a beautiful motif. It just doesn't work. I expect my paintings to be strong and surprising.”

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