"Where I went, no one could follow. Yet someone managed to hold my hand."

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Source : John Banville (2011). “Mefisto”, p.110, Pan Macmillan

John Banville

“The song is just the given. It's how you cover it that matters.”
“I used to go to school in Manhattan with a bunch of the City Kids.”
“I would not say I am looking for God. Or, I am not looking for God precisely. I am not seeking the God I learned about as a Catholic child, as an 18-year-old novice in a religious community, as an agnostic graduate student, as - but who cares about my disguises? Or God's.”
“When you're an actress, you become this thing in people's hands that people are trying to manipulate. I cannot stand it.”
“I have always liked kind of outsider characters. In the movies I grew up liking, you had more complicated characters. I don't mean that in a way that makes us better or anything. I just seem to like characters who don't really fit into. You always hear that from the studio: "You have to be able to root for them, they have to be likeable, and the audience has to be able to see themselves in the characters." I feel that's not necessarily true. As long as the character has some type of goal or outlook on the world, or perspective, you can follow that story.”

Source : Source: film.avclub.com
“The problem with romantic comedies is you know the ending by the poster. So they're not movies you can keep doing over and over again expect satisfaction somehow.”
“I'm very physical. I grew up boxing. I've done almost all of my own stunts in movies and in television.”

Source : Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com
“No proper princess would come out looking for dragons," Woraug objected. "Well I'm not a proper princess then!" Cimorene snapped. "I make cherries jubillee and I volunteer for dragons, and I conjugate Latin verbs-- or at least I would if anyone would let me. So there!”

Source : Patricia C. Wrede (2015). “The Enchanted Forest Chronicles: [Boxed Set]”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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