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“I often get sent scripts about little men in big situations. There's a comic element to it, which is forces stacked against this little guy, and how is he going to defeat them?”
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“We shall never be at peace with ourselves until we yield with glad supremacy to our higher faculties.”
Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 477, 1895.
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“To be fair to ourselves, in almost every original script, the timing is actually worked out down to the minute”
Source : "The Worst Day Ever". Interview with James Surowiecki, www.slate.com. January 17, 2006.
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“I had never been near insane persons before in my life, and had not the faintest idea of what their actions were like”
Source : Nellie Bly (2016). “Ten Days in a Mad-House”, p.7, Nellie Bly
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“Every generation deals with the breaking down of its tradition, and I think that they rediscovered the film.”
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“The attitude and reactions of artists toward their art children reveal an attitude similar to that which mothers in general possess toward their children. There is the same sensitivity to any criticism, the same possessive pride...”
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“It kind of irritates me that I'm seen as this pretty face. People also say I'm too thin. The truth is pretty people aren't as accepted as other people. It comes with all these stigmas.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Silence is the Sabbath of the soul. Therein we rest, and therein we hear everything.”