"Most traditional ghost stories feature rather hapless protagonists, who have nasty things happen to them."

-- Jonathan Stroud

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“No sooner than I had begun to read this great work [Frasier, The Golden Bough], than I became immersed in it and enslaved by it. I realized then that anthropology, as presented by Sir James Frasier, is a great science, worthy of as much devotion as any of her elder and more exact sister studies, and I became bound to the service of Frazerian anthropology.”
“My therapist in Paris once told me that being creative is a better form of therapy for me than sitting on his couch.”

Source : "Time Out with Before Midnight's Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy". Interview with David Fear, www.timeout.com. June 12, 2013.
“Is your heart right? If your heart isn't right, fix it up today.”
“The happiest marriages are full of alternative lives, lived in the head, unknown to the partner.”

Source : John Bayley (1999). “Iris and the friends: a year of memories”, Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
“I love working in cinema - it can be in any language!”
“It is so easy to be confrontive without being informative; indignant without being intelligent; impulsive without being insightful.”
“A lot of directors are overbearing and tend to make you doubt your instincts.”
“Less-creative people can't shift gears. Very creative people move between these two states intuitively.”

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