"Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it."

-- Johann Georg Hamann

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“The human condition is all about us pretending to be something sometimes that we're not. When you get into the core of people kind of stripping all of that away, that's for me, as an actor, always the most fun stuff to do.”
“Well, did he do it?" She always asked the irrelevant question. It didn't matter in terms of the strategy of the case whether the defendant "did it" or not. What mattered was the evidence against him -- the proof -- and if and how it could be neutralized. My job was to bury the proof, to color the proof a shade of gray. Gray was the color of reasonable doubt.”
“Put All of your Energy & Attention into Visualizing ... It's then that Doors Begin to Open for You”
“I'd certainly go for a love marriage”
“I don't particularly care about having [my characters] talk realistically, that doesn't mean very much to me. Actually, a lot of people speak more articulately than some critics think, but before the 20th century it really didn't occur to many writers that their language had to be the language of everyday speech. When Wordsworth first considered that in poetry, it was considered very much of a shocker. And although I'm delighted to have things in ordinary speech, it's not what I'm trying to perform myself at all: I want my characters to get their ideas across, and I want them to be articulate.”
“All history is a lie!”
“If I was a Pokemon, I'll either be a Psyduck or a Jigglypuff.”
“There is a much that a man should not see, should not know, and if he should see it, it is better for him to die.”

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