"So when I write characters and situations and relationships, I try to sort of utilize what I know about the world, limited as it is, and what I hear from my friends and see with my relatives."

-- Charlie Kaufman

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“I never actually studied an American accent. I never learned it. I never had anybody teach me how to do it. It just kind of happened. I think I probably spent a lot of my childhood in front of my mirror pretending to do Cornflake commercials like the kids I've seen on TV from America.”
“Everything that can be found in the universe on a large scale is reflected in a human being on a small scale.”

Source : "Initiation Into Hermetics". Book by Franz Bardon, p. 31, 1956.
“Grace doesn't depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors.”

Source : "The Shack". Book by William P. Young, May, 2007.
“There are ogres and black beasts out there; you have to be constantly on guard.”
“Mysticism and the supernatural are embedded in the show - it's called 'Da Vinci's Demons' for a reason, and it's not just metaphorical.”

Source : "David S. Goyer Explains His ‘Graphic Novel’ Approach to Renaissance Intrigue in ‘Da Vinci’s Demons’". Interview with Alison Willmore, www.indiewire.com. April 9, 2013.
“There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.”
“Its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery . . . is his natural and normal condition.”
“I kind of cheer the presence of any gay characters at all - I think the more we can saturate television with any gay character or lesbian character or transgender character, I think that's a really great thing. We're kind of getting past the fact that they're the punchline or that they're the novelty.”

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