"When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it - or rather, it is like living it. It makes reading so much more exciting, but I don't suppose many people try to do it."

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Source : Dodie Smith (2003). “I Capture the Castle”, p.31, St. Martin's Press

Dodie Smith

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“Saturday Night Live was actually started with a show that Lorne Michaels and I did at a summer camp called Timberlane in Ontario when we were 14 and 15. We would do an improvisational show with music, comedy and acting.”
“The first thing you have to consider when writing a novel is your story, and then your story - and then your story!”

Source : Ford Madox Ford (2012). “It Was the Nightingale”, p.128, Carcanet
“The Theatre of the Oppressed is theatre in this most archaic application of the word. In this usage, all human beings are Actors (they act!) and Spectators (they observe!).”

Source : Augusto Boal (2005). “Games for Actors and Non-Actors”, p.15, Routledge
“I want the love that cannot help but love; Loving, like God, for very sake of love.”
“I didn't finish college, which is really weird because they awarded me the Alumni of Distinction recently.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The United States is a big country but unfortunately it seems it has the brain of a little bird not befitting the greatness of the country.”

Source : "Iran's ex-president: U.S should show goodwill". Interview with Barbara Slavin, usatoday30.usatoday.com. February 6, 2005.
“In making films, I'm constantly looking for people who are in conflict and who are going to surprise you and challenge you.”
“I'm talking about when you're nearer the end of your life than the beginning. Now what do you think you think about then? The future? In the future I'm going to do this? Become that? What future? No. What you think is, 'How will I be regarded in the end?'”

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