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“I've always thought of acting as a tool to change society. I watch a lot of actors and I see panic in their eyes because they don't know why they act and I know why I act. Whether I'm a good or a bad actor, I know why I do it.”
Source : "Q&A: Edward Norton comes to grips with De Niro and The Boss". Interview with Peter Howell, www.thestar.com. September 9, 2010.
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“The wrinkles in my brow, The furrows in my face, Say, limping age will lodge him now Where youth must give him place.”
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“The sunlight on the garden Hardens and grows cold, We cannot cage the minute Within its nets of gold”
Source : 'Sunlight on the Garden' (1938)
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“The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.”
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“These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the rudder, and the ship goes to heaven or hell.”
Source : Rebecca Harding Davis (2016). “Life in the Iron-Mills”, p.11, Lulu.com
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“I never even thought the sophomore slump existed. You hear the saying, but you never thought it was for real or anything. But that's kind of what happened to us last year, and I don't know really why that is.”
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“Funerals and weddings were commonplace, and nothing could have been so interesting to them as the coming of the end of the world ... unless it had been a first-class circus.”
Source : Edward Eggleston (1872). “The End of the World: A Love Story”, p.59
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“We cannot turn our back and say that violence in films or anything that we do doesn't have a sort of influence. It does.”