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“Within a science fictional space, memory and regret are, when taken together, the set of necessary and sufficient elements required to produce a time machine.”

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“Maybe I'd absorbed the capacity to hurt someone by listening to my parents every night, who were under the impression that turning the volume…

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“A life is about twenty-five thousand days, and a finding occurs about once every twenty-five thousand days. In other news, once in a lifetime.”

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“We don't need the Good Life. The Pretty Good Life would be just fine.”

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For the past several years, I have gone to sleep every night in this same little pocket, the most uneventful piece of time I…

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Whatever the reason, first place was always Solo, always, always, always, and second place was usually Chewbacca, because if you weren't the one saving…

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“I hate everything about her except for the fact that I love everything about her.”

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“My thoughts, normally bunched together, wrapped in gauze, insistent, urgent, impatient, one moment to the next, living in what I now realize is, in…

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“How many times before I finally convince myself, how many private, erasable deaths will I need to die, how many self-murders is it going…

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“I know none of this seems very believable. It probably doesn't even make sense. But for once in your life, please, I am asking…

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“My father makes to-do lists, makes plans, makes business plans. This is how he starts, always with a blank sheet of graph paper.”

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“It’s hard to have a relationship in this world. Other people are not the same from day to day. I might wake up next…

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I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.

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Geometry, which should only obey Physics, when united with it sometimes commands it. If it happens that the question which we wish to examine…

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I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement…

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Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual…

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Intelligence is a separate gift, for the benefit of students, so that they may think of themselves as intellectual and not very intelligent, or…

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I don't think that writing, real writing, has much to do with affirming belief--if anything it causes rifts and gaps in belief which make…

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The proliferation of right-to-carry laws throughout the states has drawn plaintive complaints from the criminal element. They feel that it makes their profession too…

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To me, the most important elements in a theatre are the actors and the texts.

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