"Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema."

-- James Broughton

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“The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.”
“And we want to develop our strategy to partnership and friendship with the United States, which is connected with a very rich history but what is very important for our future.”
“When people are putting pressure on me I just completely ignore it.”
“I am by nature the most intolerant and insular Englishman... If you happen to be a person like that and you learn from evidence (which you are prepared to accept) that in the past you have been a Chinese, an Egyptian, a Persian, a Red Indian... you begin to assume a somewhat less exclusive view of these our fellow men.”
“To the ACLU, the First Amendment speaks more directly to freedom from religion than it does to freedom of religion.”
“We remember what it was like to meet someone new. We remember what it was like to grant someone possibility. You look out from your own world and then you step into his, not really knowing what youâ€™ll find there, but hoping it will be something good. Both Ryan and Avery are doing this. You step into his world and you donâ€™t even realize your loneliness is missing. Youâ€™ve left it behind, and you donâ€™t notice because you have no desire to turn back.”
“When three liberals get together they form a new party; that is their idea of individualism. They never join a bowling club without introducing as part of the 'agenda' an 'amendment of the statutes.”
“I would go into a place that was quiet and isolated and think about how my character would feel in the situation, considering who he was and what he had been through. I would think about that even up to 30 minutes. And when I felt the character was in my body and I had left, I could walk onto set or into rehearsal.”

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