"We are too civil to books. For a……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• If I'm not clear with the character, I can't do anything with it. But once I get that character, the… — Eliza Coupe
• I like vocabulary and I actually read a book called 'Word Freak,' which is about a guy who basically went… — Stephen Amell
• I can't actually read interviews with thesps now because they're almost always fantastically predictable, the men especially. Actors are forever… — Peter York
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