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“My basic advise is don't lose money”
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“A day may sink or save a realm.”
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“Nothing affects my acting. Acting is something I do with my soul so it embodies a lot of things. For me, I don't know about anyone else, acting is spiritual, so if I do not embody a character or a story or a script, it's going to be extremely difficult for me to be convincing and I don't like that because I am somewhat of a perfectionist”
Source : "Jermain Defoe: 'I wanted to put something back and stop all this youth violence'". Interview with Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. April 7, 2012. 
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“The actors I respect are the ones who see it as a career and manage to live reasonably normal lives, like Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman.”
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“I can say I have become far more open about what I believe.”
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“In our country are evangelists and zealots of many different political, economic and religious persuasions whose fanatical conviction is that all thought is divinely classified into two kinds - that which is their own and that which is false and dangerous.”
Source : "American Communications Association v. Douds, 339 U.S. 382, 438". Judicial opinion, 1950.
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“Unlikely things to see in a Valentine's card - "I may be dyslexic but that doesn't mean I don't vole you."”
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“Like the bodies of dancers or athletes, the minds of readers are genuinely happy and self-possessed only when cavorting around, doing their stretches and leaps and jumps to the tune of words.”
Source : FaceBook post by Lynne Sharon Schwartz from Oct 22, 2014
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“About 25 years ago, I started out as a reporter covering politics. And that sort of just evolved into organized crime, because organized crime and politics were the same thing in Boston.”
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“For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind?”
