"Actors are cave dwellers in a rich darkness which they love and hate."

-- Iris Murdoch

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“You can smile when your heart is breaking because you are a woman, and a courtier, and a Howard. That's three reasons for being the most deceitful creature on God's earth.”
“I do write about thinkers. And that's what I love about reading. My favorite books, the ones that made me sit there for days, weeks, months, years, and pop back into my head - they make me think a lot.”

Source : Source: www.hbook.com
“Look at the problems in your life. Ask yourself, 'What kind of thoughts am I having that create this?'”
“Movies don't look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody's character right and having it be funny, make sense and be romantic, it's creating a puzzle. Yes, having been a writer for so long, I have an awareness of when things are going awry, but it doesn't mean I know how to fix them.”

Source : "Nancy Meyers: The rom-com queen". Interview with Francesca Babb, www.independent.co.uk. January 9, 2010.
“And I thought my loss was not, certainly, the end of the world, but to lessen the enthusiasm of those young people who were signed up, I thought that was tragic.”
“How will it be with us in the future life, when everything that has gratified us in this world: riches, honors, food and drink, dress, beautifully furnished dwellings, and all attractive objects-how will it be, I say, when all these things leave us-when they will all seem to us a dream, and when works of faith and virtue, of abstinence, purity, meekness, humility, mercy, patience, obedience, and others will be required of us?”
“With something like Chernobyl, the public reaction was Oh, my God, science has really done wrong.”
“I was happier before, when I lead a normal life.”

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