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“I think the education I've had as an actor I would never have had at university.”
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“All of North Korea is a jail.”
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“I just never understood why someone else's love life and who they love and who they choose to be with affects so many other people's livesI never understood the whole point of opposing or hating someone else's happiness.”
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“Animals used to provide a lowlife way to kill and get away with it, as they do still, but, more intriguingly, for some people they are an aperture through which wounds drain. The scapegoat of olden times, driven off for the bystanders sins, has become a tender thing, a running injury. There, running away is me: hurt it and you are hurting me.”
Source : Edward Hoagland (1995). “The Tugman's Passage”
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“Talking to a therapist, I thought, was like taking your clothes off and then taking your skin off, and then having the other person say, "Would you mind opening up your rib cage so that we can start?”
Source : Julie Schumacher (2008). “Black Box”, p.58, Delacorte Books for Young Readers
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“the trouble with success is - it takes all your time. And you can't do the things you really want to do!”
Source : Ruth Draper, Morton Dauwen Zabel (1960). “The art of Ruth Draper: her dramas and characters”
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“Ethically, I think pretty much every code of ethics for doctors suggests that they should not be in an interrogation room, particularly if there's anything coercive or abusive going on.”
Source : "Psychological Warfare? A Debate on the Role of Mental Health Professionals in Military Interrogations at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and Beyond". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. August 11, 2005. 
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“The Gospel is a gospel of power or it is nothing at all.”
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“So also it is good not always to make a friend of the person who is expert in twining himself around us; but, after testing them, to attach ourselves to those who are worthy of our affection and likely to be serviceable to us.”
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“Any job ends up with stress, and certainly there's always a deadline looming when you work in TV. It's sort of constant.”
Source : "We Just Keep Trying to Beat Every Show With the Funny Stick Until It's Funny". Interview with Dana Stevens, www.slate.com. June 10, 2015.
