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Jeremy Northam

"Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling."

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"Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling."

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"Macy: "In Truth, I said, "there are no rules other than you have to tell the truth.Wes: "How do you win? he askedMacy: "That, I said, "is such a boy question."

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Asa Don Brown

"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."

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"Sometimes dead is better."

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"A false potential can dress itself up as attractive ideas."

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"Truth does not sit in a cave and hide like a lie. It wanders around proudly and roars loudly like a lion."

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"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."

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"The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true."

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Asa Don Brown

"Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are."

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Asa Don Brown

"When I was a child, I thought grown-ups and teachers knew the truth, because they told me they did. It took years for me to discover that the first step in finding out the truth is to begin unlearning almost everything adults had taught me, and to start doing all the things they'd told me NOT to do. Their main pitch was that achievement equaled happiness, when all you had to do was study rock stars, or movie stars, or them, to see that they were mostly miserable. They were all running around in mazes like everyone else."

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Asa Don Brown

"The only sentence that begins with 'I' that's true of me is I'm full of shit."

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"There's so much of, it could have been a very critical examination of what happened, and really the emotional lives of the people involved sort of carry the characters forward."
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"I don't consider 41 being in prime of life. Even if I conceived a child tomorrow I'd be 52 by the time it was 10. I'm not sure I'd have the energy, and I find that quite scary."
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"I was born in 1961. Now I think the 16 years that elapsed between 1961 and the end of the wars is nothing. To a child growing up it felt like an eternity, an entirely different world."
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"I think one probably absorbs things like a sponge and things emerge without your always being aware of it."
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"I've never had a desire to be famous. Lots of actors are actually extremely shy. I have shy areas."
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"I did decide that you have to put your name about a bit, and so, although I would have preferred to have never done publicity or an interview or a fashion shoot for a magazine or a chat show."
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"I would have loved to have met some former spies, but they don't readily advertise themselves unless they're not living in Moscow, and even then. I'm sure I've met some without realizing it."
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"I never want to sort of put all the cards on the table all at once, because that's somehow there's always a journey to go on. There's always something to be revealed, in my mind, about characters."
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"The Jungian view of drama would be that it affects all of our imaginations and somehow taps into our hidden, ancient, primordial memories."
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"I read about this hotel that was great, down in the south of the island, not in a touristy area. I had no particular desire ever to go to Jamaica, but I thought, what the hell? Sounds nice. Let's go!"
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