"For me, when working on a film or play or television show, everything for me starts with the screenplay and I am devoted to that and that is what I work from. Any research I do or any preparation I do on my own is all ultimately in service of that."

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Source : "Q&A: James Spader repeats history in 'Lincoln'". Interview with Amanda Meyncke, www.mtv.com. November 23, 2012.

James Spader

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“The average household might prepare for root canal, traffic accident, unemployment or illness, but how the household will meet, manage and even survive violent crime is the most neglected area of household management.”
“To me, working out is literally like eating a meal or drinking water or breathing.”

Source : "Hilary Swank Is Ready for Takeoff". Interview with Joanna Coles, www.marieclaire.com. October 7, 2009.
“To divide along the lines of section or caste or creed is un-American.”
“Originally I wanted to be a diplomat, and by attrition I started giving up that idea.”

Source : Source: www.identitytheory.com
“The mechanical philosophy was ever blind to this fact. Intelligent design, on the other hand, readily embraces the sacramental nature of physical reality. Indeed, intelligent design is just the Logos theology of John's Gospel restated in the idiom of information theory.”
“It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead.”
“Warfare against civilians must never be answered in kind. Terror must never be answered with terror.”
“By the ancients, courage was regarded as practically the main part of virtue; by us, though I hope we are not less brave, purity is so regarded now.”

Source : Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.180

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