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		The Midwest isn't somewhere you mix with those from the performing arts. But my mum and dad would go off to Chicago every so often to see shows. They would bring back the albums and the movies, those little eight metres, and we would all watch. I think that was when I fell in love with acting.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Willem Dafoe 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		Apparently 'The Office' plays in Brazil. Who would've thought that Brazilians would identify with a bunch of pasty white Scrantonians in a paper company? But the Brazilians I've met have really loved the show. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Rainn Wilson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I love a real-life, movie moment in living color. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				L'Wren Scott 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Abigail Washburn 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I weighed 25 stone, and I didn't stand nine feet tall, so the weight didn't sit well on me. As big as a house? No. I was as big as an estate. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Victor LaValle 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Victor Hugo 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that what makes life worth living, the good life, consists of accepting challenges, solving problems, discovery, personal growth, personal change. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Edmund Phelps 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		To understand something, whether we are aware of it or not, depends on choosing a model. We get to understand what we see by comparing it with something else, something that we think we understand better. But what we compare it with turns out to have a huge influence on the outcome. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Iain McGilchrist 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Adam Hasner 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I wasn't very good as a puppet. A lot of times in a movie, you need a really good puppeteer: you're sort of a puppet, and you're doing what you can. But I always, from the beginning, was kind of making up my own stuff from stand-up and sort of directing myself, so I wasn't very good in movies where I didn't have control. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dana Carvey 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Karl Shapiro 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Juilliard definitely emphasizes the theater. They don't train - at all really - for film acting. It's mostly process-oriented, pretty much for the stage. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Adam Driver 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				H. P. Lovecraft