"I honor religion except when it gets into shedding blood."

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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“You can skim those stage directions and go right to the dialogue. You can almost read the movie in the same amount of time it will take you to see the movie.”
“I am drawn to people that are not going to shy away from the very dark, scary stuff of the human condition and in a lot of cases people need alcohol or drugs to create poetry and poetic pose that can take you so far out there where you are still able to recognize yourself and then to bring you back home where you're not the same person you were when you left.”
“I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.”
“If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.”
“I got a cable from New York saying that what I'd written about the growth of Soviet agricultural production didn't make sense because the same levels were reached under the czars. I wanted to confirm it, but by then the censors were on to me.”
“There is a vital force in rumor. Though crushed to earth, to all intents and purposes buried, it can rise again without apparent effort.”

Source : Eleanor Robson Belmont (1957). “The Fabric of Memory”
“Big decisions in my life have always come easy and are made without hesitation. It is easier for me to make a life-changing decision than to decide what to get for dessert.”
“Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.”

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