"I could have gone the route of a lot of these former child actors, but I didn't want that for myself. Like I said, when I was 14 years old, I decided to quit. I didn't ever want to do it again."

-- Macaulay Culkin

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“I'm not as trusting as people think I am. Sure, I see the best in people, but that doesn't mean it's really there.”
“People just don't know how to handle it if a woman uses smarts and brains rather than tits.”
“Scotland cannot be the only 'something for nothing' country in the world.”

Source : "Labour's wretched silence on child poverty" by Kevin McKenna, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2012.
“How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?" (Plato) The things we want are transformative, and we donâ€™t know or only think we know what is on the other side of that transformation. Love, wisdom, grace, inspiration- how do you go about finding these things that are in some ways about extending the boundaries of the self into unknown territory, about becoming someone else?”
“A favorite science fiction writer of mine is William Faulkner! It was an idea that came to me once, years ago, and I've never quite been able to shake it. This is facetious, on one level at least. There are telepaths in As I Lay Dying. But I think the most compelling thing for me is there are moments with him where I just feel these are not humans talking to each other. These are some hyper-intelligent, yet-to-be-born organisms. The way they look at the past without having any loss of knowledge everything that ever happened is still here.”
“All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying.”
“In fact, of course, I hold that propositions that contemporary philosophers would properly count as 'empirical' can be necessary and be known to be such.”
“I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.”

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