"A big fear of working with an actor that's never been a lead in a film before is that you're going to have to work really hard to pull a performance out of her."

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Source : Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 19, 2011.

Sean Durkin

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“The real evidence for Jesus and Christianity is in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practicing Christians.”
“I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.”
“I'm not particularly worried by any of the songs we've written in the past, except for some of the really early stuff which is total tripe.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Be sure you avoid the Ku Klux Klan. Don't get that albatross around your neck. Once you've made that mistake, you inhibit your operations in the political arena.”

Source : "Dems Need to Houseclean" by Deroy Murdock, www.nationalreview.com. January 6, 2003.
“Philosophy is to science as masturbation is to sex.”
“Pass by the synthetic yarn department, then, with your nose in the air. Should a clerk come out with the remark that All Young Mothers In This Day and Age (why can't they save their breath and say "now"?) insist on a yarn which can be machine-washed and machine-dried, come back at her with the reply that one day, you suppose, they will develop a baby that can be machine-washed and -dried.”

Source : Elizabeth Zimmermann (2012). “Elizabeth Zimmermann's Knitter's Almanac: The Commemorative Edition”, p.18, Courier Corporation
“Submissiveness to fate, the total abdication of your own will in the shaping of your life, the recognition that it was impossible to guess the best and the worst ahead of time but that it was easy to take a step you would reproach yourself for-all this freed the prisoner from any bondage, made him calmer, and even ennobled him.”
“Do you know that even when you look at a tree and say, `That is an oak tree', or `that is a banyan tree', the naming of the tree, which is botanical knowledge, has so conditioned your mind that the word comes between you and actually seeing the tree? To come in contact with the tree you have to put your hand on it and the word will not help you to touch it.”

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