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“Alas, we are the victims of advertisement. Those who taste the joys and sorrows of fame when they have passed forty, know how to look after themselves. They know what is concealed beneath the flowers, and what the gossip, the calumnies, and the praise are worth. But as for those who win fame when they are twenty, they know nothing, and are caught up in the whirlpool.”
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“The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.”
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“I think good actors - good, collaborative actors who see themselves as leaders in a given production - can and should offer ideas that have nothing to do with wanting to direct themselves.”
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“Jamaica's probably the most dominant island as far as influence goes, as far as music and dancing and culture.”
Source : Source: gothamist.com
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“The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant.”
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“Sometimes you choose the wrong actor, he could be the best actor ever, but hes not cast in the right part then it doesnt work.”
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“The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.”
Source : "Plain Speaking : An Oral Biography of Harry S Truman" by Merle Miller, (p. 26), 1974.
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“Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much better than vice-versa.”
Source : "PETER STRAUB: Connoisseur of Fear". Interview with Paula Guran, www.darkecho.com. June 1997.