"Men see what they are most afraid of."

-- Patricia A. McKillip

“The City that knows how.”
“I was a dancer. I was really seriously into dancing.”
“If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.”

Source : Orson Welles, Mark W. Estrin (2002). “Orson Welles: Interviews”, p.221, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“Fiction seems to be more effective at changing beliefs than nonfiction, which is designed to persuade through argument and evidence. Studies show that when we read nonfiction, we read with our shields up. We are critical and skeptical. But when we are absorbed in a story, we drop our intellectual guard. We are moved emotionally, and this seems to make us rubbery and easy to shape.”
“No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.”
“But I think the children of actors share a certain pragmatic approach. One is denied some of that 'running away with the circus' element of being an actor.”

Source : "Toby Jones: dial H for Hitchcock". Interview with Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. December 09, 2012.
“Anybody that forms a group, writes songs and releases records and says they don't care if people like them are complete liars.”
“Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.”

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