"Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one's own powers."

-- Maxim Gorky

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“As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.”
“The Internet contains everything in the whole wide world ever. I donâ€™t know about you, but I find everything in the whole wide world ever to be a bit distracting.”

Source : Dave Gorman (2004). “Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventure”, p.13, The Overlook Press
“Doing what is right in the face of adversity is not always easy or popular. Critics may assail you, but the critics don't always realize what they don't know or don't understand, because they don't have access to all the information.”

Source : "Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice". Book by John Ashcroft, 2006.
“I think that Michael Jackson, just as an entertainer, as a figure who embodies the contradictions of black identity and the possibilities of R&B music in the '70s and '80s, will continue to be one of the most recognized and formidable human beings that we've ever produced in our tradition.”
“All those songs reflect all the people that live within me.”
“I walked all around it [the Guggenheim Bilbao] and couldn't find one clear, clean shot. To make things worse, the weather was lousy. Nothing about this rang commercial money shot. In a situation like this there's only one thing to do: forget about pleasing editors, please yourself.”
“Superheroes fill a gap in the pop culture psyche, similar to the role of Greek mythology. There isn't really anything else that does the job in modern terms. For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously.”

Source : "'He's not a god - he's human'". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2005.
“The idea that feeling confident and feeling misunderstood are mutually exclusive really bugs me.”

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