"I like characters who have strong facades and then have secrets. They have cracks."
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"There are secret passages all around you if you know where to look for them."
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"I can’t reveal the mystery to either saint or sinner; I can’t state at length what I’ve said curtly; I achieve an altered state that I can’t explain; I have a secret that I cannot share."
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"That's probably the biggest secret of acting: If the actor believes it themselves, they can make you believe it."
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"Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets -- is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together."
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"You give birth to that on which you fix your mind"
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"I will see beauty and goodness in all things. From all that is unlovely shall my vision be immune."
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"The secret of success is focus of purpose."
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"Dan Brown, is a character from Foucault's Pendulum! I invented him. He shares my characters' fascinations - the world conspiracy of Rosicrucians, Masons, and Jesuits. The role of the Knights Templar. The hermetic secret. The principle that everything is connected. I suspect Dan Brown might not even exist."
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"I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness."
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"Don't only practise your art, but force your way into its secrets."
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"Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time."
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"A child is mysterious and powerful; And contains within himself the secret of human nature."
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"When you drop your expectations that a person, a situation, a place, or an object should fulfill you, it's easier to be present in this moment because you're no longer looking to the next one. Most people want to get what they want, whereas the secret is to want what you get at this moment."
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"A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear; kisses are the messengers of love and tenderness."
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"I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development."
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"If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread. If it is the soul you seek, you will find the soul. If you understand this secret, you know you are that which you seek."
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"Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife."
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"Our fearlessness shall be our secret weapon."
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"Attack is the secret of defense; defense is the planning of an attack."
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