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Everything went perfectly on 'In Bruges.' It was constant warfare, but I won all the battles and was really happy working with the actors and everything on the film.

Martin McDonagh

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The conventional, and painfully artificial, separation of the human realm from the natural other is bound to perish, albeit over a period of time, until we are obliged to learn how to cultivate our gardens under the most demanding conditions.

John Burnside

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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege.

John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

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Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death.

John Thorn

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I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me.

Stephen Sondheim

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He made it quite clear that if I didn't play the role, I would be dead within a week. As you can imagine, the guy who turned down Hagrid would be like the guy who called the Beatles a guitar band. So I couldn't possibly refuse, really.

Robbie Coltrane

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That's wonderful. And what did you do with the money?

Miriam Hopkins

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We should all laugh more at our elected officials - it's good for us and good for them.

Molly Ivins

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That was pretty crazy, going from singing in my room to singing in front of 5,000 people.

Jonah Marais

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With movies, so much of it is, 'Who is the human being that is going to be directing it?' Because it is their medium. In a way, you are serving the director, and when it is someone that you feel you can have a lot of confidence in, it can make a big difference.

Annette Bening

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Animation has completely changed, and I've always been a big fan.

Shia LaBeouf

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I'm a dad now, so now I just don't care what I look like. Once you've created life, you just don't care what anyone thinks.

Tim Schafer

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