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Olivia Williams Actress
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"The trouble with audition process is, when you're an unemployed actor, it's the only time you get to act, and it can be quite fun. If you feel in control of the material and you feel that the people are pleased to see you and are excited by you auditioning for them, it can be a really rewarding process. But it can also be a very humiliating process."

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J. R. R. Tolkien Novelist, Scholar
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"Saruman," I said, standing away from him, "only one hand at a time can weild the One, and you know that well, so do not trouble to say we!"

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Orson Welles Director, Actor, Producer
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"The trouble with a movie is that it's old before it's released. It's no accident that it comes in a can."

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Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister
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"Much of what I say might sound like it's stirring up trouble, but it's the truth!"

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Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister
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"The Negro neighborhood, which is inferior, is begging for a chance to - integrate itself into that which is - is superior, which is not going to happen. It's going to cause trouble."

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Ovid Poet
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"Ah me! how easy it is (how much all have experienced it) to indulge in brave words in another person's trouble. [Lat., Hei mihi, quam facile est (quamvis hic contigit omnes), Alterius lucta fortia verba loqui!]"

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Nathanael West Novelist, Screenwriter
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"No dream ever entirely disappears. Somewhere it troubles some unfortunate person and some day, when that person has been sufficiently troubled, it will be reproduced on the lot."

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Harper Lee Novelist
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"I don't want to hear any words like that while I'm here. Scout, you'll get in trouble if you go around saying things like that. You want to grow up to be a lady, don't you?' I said not particularly."

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Margaret Fuller Transcendentalist, Writer
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"Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural."

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"It seems to me, though, that you always understand very well what I can't say very well. Trouble is I end up being even worse at saying things well."

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