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“Ismail Merchant was just the most seductive, passionate, outrageous, driven, genius of a man.”

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Love makes no sense at all. But it's the most powerful and amazing force in the entire universe.

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I love Ron Howard, he's a wonderful director, incredibly prepared. But I have to criticize my performance in that movie. It all took place in one day. My character was having a bad day, so she's having a bad day throughout the whole movie. But this was a comedy, and I think I was too serious, too dense. Yes, I…

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As an actor, I go where the good writing is. That's the bottom line.

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I don't have the body or the face for romantic comedies, so I've never been offered those. The challenge is that a lot of…

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I'm not a natural ocean person. I married into a family of swimmers, and I've slowly been drawn into the sea.

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When you're on the set, and sometimes, because it's been so complex and the writers have been really writing, sometimes up until the last…

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I've often been mistaken for Meryl Streep, although never on Oscar night.

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I had a great time on The Shield. From working on it I have a totally different view of law enforcement.

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Taking power away from a man is a dangerous thing. Someone always pays.

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My fellow actors inspire me a lot and really good writing inspires me. And then trying to stick to the decision to only do something that I think will challenge me and that I, personally and very subjectively, I think is good not do something because I think it will bring me a lot of money or bring me a…

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You have to love the characters you play, even if no one else does.

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I get bored talking about myself, but I can talk about the work.

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The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of economic imperialism. Here one is reminded of a somewhat modified expression of Proudhon’s: whoever invokes humanity wants to cheat. To confiscate the word humanity, to invoke and monopolize such a term probably has certain incalculable effects,…

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The bird with the thorn in its breast, it follows an immutable law; it is driven by it knows not what to impale itself, and die singing. At the very instant the thorn enters there is no awareness in it of the dying to come; it simply sings and sings until there is not the life left to utter another…

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[As in the case of] alcohol prohibition, illegality has driven organized crime, sent countless people to jail, and killed many thousands. Repression does not…

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Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courage and patience.

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The World's a Printing-House, our words, our thoughts, Our deeds, are characters of several sizes. Each soul is a Compos'tor, of whose faults The Levites are Correctors; Heaven Revises. Death is the common Press, from whence being driven, We're gather'd, Sheet by Sheet, and bound for Heaven.

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