"America is especially sensitive to war weariness, and nothing brings backlash like the perception of defeat. I say â€œperceptionâ€ because America is a very all-or-nothing societyâ€¦ We like to know, and for everyone else to know, that our victory wasnâ€™t uncontested, it was positively devastating."

-- Max Brooks

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“The thing is, I want to play real characters and not all girls can be pretty. The thing is, you get these girls who say 'I'm a character actor' then you see them in a role and nothing has really changed but the outfit.”
“Both men and women are really vast and boundless and yet in many films we're told that they're not. We're told they can only be one thing - like handsome and charming and that's it. Nothing more.”

Source : "Interview: Actor Jason Ritter on his career, his insecurities and life with & without his father". Interview with Zorianna Kit, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.
“And the problem is once you get into this campaign business and begin to have a lot of money, then the person on the bench begins to think - what's going to happen if I decide the case this way or that way?”
“But were there ever any Writhed not at passed joy?”
“For someone in my position, there's opportunities to be anything you want to be, even if you shouldn't be eligible, and I think that's left a bad taste in a lots of financers' and studios' mouths. Just cause someone's popular at one thing, letting them do the other isn't always the right thing.”
“The barbarians come out at night.”
“In a strange way we were free. We'd reached the end of the line. We had nothing more to lose. Our privacy, our liberty, our dignity: all of this was gone and we were stripped down to the bare bones of our selves”

Source : Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.94, Vintage
“It actually got me upset reading about adopted children. They become junkies or criminals or actors. I wanted to write a book from the children's point of view.”

Source : "‘Mission: Impossible 4’ Villain Michael Nyqvist Talks New Movie, Memoir". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 20, 2011.

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