I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of. - Ralph Fiennes

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I took delight in hurling books across the room if I knew I would not be reading the second chapter. Then I’d go and pick them up again, because they are books, after all, and we are not savages.

Ralph Fiennes

I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of.

Guess, Love, Surprised, Thought

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One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.

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Success. . is all about being able to extend love to people. . . not in a big, capital letter sense but in the everyday. Little by little, task by task, gesture by gesture, word by word.

Extend, Motivational, People, Success, Task, Word

Having gone through editing process, I can see that in actor's faces there's point where they're not managing their performance and that's, I think, the best place to be. You've done the homework, you've learned the lines, at that point you just sort of let it out.

Editing, Gone, Having, Homework, Performance, Thinking

I'm interested in the spirits of people. In the theatre, there's the acting part of acting - and I'm not saying that can't be great - and there's the essence. To explore that essence, you need a key, a look, a gesture, an insight that unlocks the person's soul.

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There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and suddenly your all bound together because you share your humanity in one simple moment.

Bound, Hand, Hands, Humanity, Moment, Simple

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Jay Rockefeller

We will push through health care reform regardless of the views of the American people.

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Neil Gaiman

I took delight in hurling books across the room if I knew I would not be reading the second chapter. Then I’d go and pick them up again, because they are books, after all, and we are not savages.

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Eliphas Levi

Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflections of the eternal. All beauty alters and all life melts away; in short, everything passes with marvelous rapidity; beautiful Helen of Troy has become a toothless skull, then a handful of dust, then nothing.

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Don Hertzfeldt

So much of the writing is not conscious, in the sense that it's not calculated. I remember in film school we had so many studies with big fancy words where you could dissect a movie and make charts of all of the characters' complicated inner relations and themes and what does this mean? And it's overwhelming as a student. It's great for a student, but as a writer, it's paralyzing.

Writing, School, Character, Writer, Conscious, Characters

Frank Herbert

It's easier to be terrified by an enemy you admire.

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