We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are. - Alan Rickman

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If you feel depressed for an hour, you've produced approximately eighteen billion new cells that have more receptors calling out for depressed-type peptides and fewer calling out for feel-good peptides.

Alan Rickman

We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

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I think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent.

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Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.

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I think the thing about film is, as it gets proved by a lot of young filmmakers now, that the medium will just go on reinventing itself, and so you just hope to be a part of that and not a part of some kind of endless regurgitation or 'Here I am doing what you know I do' kind of thing.

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A wounding tongue. I'm working on it. Perhaps its the Celt in me.

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Being on the stage in New York is always exciting because you feel like you're part of the life of the city.

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The Bible portrays God as entering into covenants with people which, when broken, causes him grief and sorrow. The biblical prophet Hosea and God's using him as an illustration of how much Israel's idolatry costs God emotionally points to God's vulnerability. But also the incarnation of God in Jesus Christ who, even as God the Son, suffered for our sins, points to God's vulnerability.

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