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“For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle, confronting some stern and faceless judge who would condemn me to a pit of hell if I didn't achieve the "zone," if even for a moment. Not a particularly happy place to work from.”
Source : Alan Arkin (2011). “An Improvised Life: A Memoir”, p.51, Da Capo Press
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“The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is better than a spoon... The book has been thoroughly tested, and it's very hard to see how it could be improved on for its current purposes.”
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“Strict seriousness was far more dangerous than any joke.”
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“We have two lives about us,Two worlds in which we dwell,Within us and without us,Alternate Heaven and Hell:-Without, the somber Real,Within, our hearts of hearts, the beautiful Ideal.”
Source : Richard Henry STODDARD (1852). “Poems”
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“I don't know if it's cool to say this anymore, but I grew up listening to Gary Glitter. A majority of his songs were in that shuffle-blues beat, and I think that's probably why I tend to write like that.”
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“In Cuba there are no drugs nor will there be.”
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“My mom was always a fan of just really elegant, sophisticated pieces. I mean we grew up in Maine, so we didn't have a lot of call for black tie or anything, but I think I definitely got that sensibility from her.”
Source : "Q&A: Anna Kendrick on modeling, movies and music". Interview with Nicole Evatt, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. October 24, 2014. 
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“They are living in the moment. They are not ashamed of the past; they are not worried about the future. Little children express what they feel, and they are not afraid to love.”
