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“Thats the great thing about being an actor, you get to try out lots of things for your roles.”
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“I really can't stand any more to pay for a burst of animation when someone comes in for drinks with a depressed and low-keyed next day, in which I have to go around on my hands and knees.”
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“Ah, the truth, what a thing it is! I sacrifice so much for it, with people: I forego, for truth's sake, discretion, loyalty, diplomacy, tact, polite manners, elegance, grace, poise, balance, good taste, conformity, image-role, fashionableness, polish, confidences, promises, ambition, consistency, identity, clarity, comprehensibleness, good will, hypocrisy, and lots of other things--amass sacrifice, at truth's altar. God! is truth worth it? I hope it is. It better be, in fact.”
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“The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate.”
Source : Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.152, Pan Macmillan
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“Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.”
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“Winter broke off, finally, a long ash crumbling at the end of a cigarette, burned out, weak and emptied.”
Source : Gregory Galloway (2015). “As Simple as Snow”, p.202, Penguin
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“I was never specifically associated with a part, I didn't have tons of money, I wasn't conventionally tall or handsome, so you know the things that were available to me were hard work and perseverance.”
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“I can count on one hand how many people I trust.”
Source : "High School Musical Starring Frances Bean Cobain". Interview with Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 08, 2008.