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-- Anne Fadiman

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“Acting is the best job in the world. Look at the way they treat you when you turn up for work. They give you breakfast and a cup of tea and ask, 'Are you all right' They tart up your face, you say somebody else's words, then pick up your check and go home. And you get days off. I tell you, it really is the way to live.”
“Sometimes somebody has an amazing house party and you meet great people and you dance - I've had incredible experiences. But they have been so much fewer than the awful experiences where you're just standing around like, "Why did I come here? We're all just putting on a show for each other and I might as well be in a museum."”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“When you are caught in the mind, your past defines you. When you are present, you are beyond definition.”
“I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war.”
“Husband and wife are like the two equal parts of a soybean. If the two parts are put under the earth separately, they will not grow. The soybean will grow only when the parts are covered by the skin. Marriage is the skin which covers each of them and makes them one.”
“I really needed to dramatize and clarify that Rachel was taking strides towards her own healing and her own sobriety - and that she was actually thoroughly frightened about what she may have done.This was something that was so beautifully done in the book [The Girl on the Train] through inner monologue, but I couldn't just have a whole film filled with inner monologues. So going to Alcoholics Anonymous was a very simple solution to that problem.”

Source : Source: www.buzzfeed.com
“Ultimately, if I'm really moved by something, it's going to go on the record and that's that”
“My look is either very baroque or very Zen â€“ everything in between makes me itch.”

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