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"He felt that he was still groping in the dark; he had chosen his path but kept looking back, wondering whether he had misread the signs, whether he should not have taken the other way."
"She had a way of moving that moved him as much as music, which was what moved him most of all. Surely the spirit animating that pearless body must be unusual too? Why would nature make a vessel like that, if not to contain something still more valuable?"
"Nothing resembles a person as much as the way he dies."
"I've worked very hard to transform my fearful delusions into loving beliefs, and I am committed to maintaining this way of being."
"The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking, in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at sometime, and because it seemed romantic to me I have remembered the incident ever since."
"I love this simply because it's cute, and I guess it's a sign of the times in many respect. It's pretty much saying you complete me, only in the sweetest way possible."
"I'm just interested in women's friendships generally. It always seems to me, and this is just my pet theory, that women are kind of at the sharp end of capitalism one way or another. Mainly because they buy everything. In a practical sense, women buy most things. They're always comparing - to friends, to famous people, to other people. An obsessive act of comparison."
"It has historically been a comfort for the bourgeois and that you can read the most extreme books and not change. You can read A Christmas Carol and not change in any way."
"Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed."
"It's important to know when to take your time and not overspend and overdo things, of course. That's why you get things that can be dressed in a thousand different ways."
"Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way."
"[When making movies I] set out to be authentic to [myself] and to put it down the way [I] feel it and know it and interpret it. And then others sometimes key into it and get it."
"I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily."
"I see films in theaters, and I enjoy films. I enjoy the art of storytelling, and the different ways to tell them."
"You don't always have to have an e-book. You can have a real book. I'd like to see the old way maintain."
"Obama took a bad situation and, in certain ways, made it worse. ... I find Obama scary in a way that I had not done in 2008."
"Being vegan is not always easy and accessible. But it's a way of life and makes me as a person feel really good and physically look better."
"Mick Jagger has produced some great films and brought us stories about the music industry that have changed the way we think about how music is made."
"I don't feel under pressure to work because I love what I do and I wanted to do the projects that came my way."
"We must serve the people worthily, and not occupy ourselves in trying to please them. The best way, to gain their affections is to do them good."
