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“Imagination is the highest form of research.”
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“I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.”
Source : Interview with Christopher Kompanek, www.avclub.com. March 23, 2012.
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“You know, I'm a television personality. It's not like I'm a famous hooker or something!”
Source : "Somers in the City". Interview with Michael Portantiere, www.theatermania.com. July 3, 2003.
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“When people know what you want, they can then manipulate that to achieve the end that they seek. It's far more interesting and valuable to bear witness to a scene and make good relationships without explicitly seeking something. You're more likely to obtain a far richer and honest experience that way.”
Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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“It may be that poetry makes life's nebulous events tangible to me and restores their detail; or conversely, that poetry brings forth the intangible quality of incidents which are all too concrete and circumstantial. Or each on specific occasions, or both all the time.”
Source : Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.500, Univ of California Press
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“Popular films are so powerful and compelling that it's often easier to accept their versions of history than the much more complicated true stories.”
Source : Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com
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“And in this community, as in all others, the Golden Rule still applies - we must be act toward other nations as we would have them act towards America.”
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“Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment - a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer. The question is this: What change will death produce in a man's existence and in his insight into the nature of things? It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.”
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“Nobody really wants to hear about anybody else's injuries. Or how your back feels. Whose back doesn't hurt?”
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“I worked in an insurance office for six years, and it was there that I just woke up one day and realised there was something massively lacking in my life, and a non-contributory pension and a subsidised canteen could not fill it.”