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"Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people not who were necessarily like the characters, but people who I felt had the essential component that the character had, some kind of soul for it."
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"Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?"
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"Brevity is the soul of wit."
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"I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul."
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"The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them."
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"I've heard that the soul often recognizes truth when it hears it, even if the mind does not."
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"Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven."
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"No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul."
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"Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul."
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"There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred."
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"As a body everyone is single, as a soul never."
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"Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people not who were necessarily like the characters, but people who I felt had the essential component that the character had, some kind of soul for it."
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"The trite answer is that everything is true but none of it happened. It is emotionally true, but the events, the plotting, the narrative, isn't true of my life, though I've experienced most of the emotions experienced by the characters in the play."
Life

"I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like this sometimes, when you're in pain and it hurts, and you're desperate. Or you are about to cross some moral line and it's so seductive and you just do... and all that."
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"But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong."
Wrong

"I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see why they do what they do; sometimes they make some mistakes, but at heart I think they're decent."
Heart

"I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic."
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"A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse."
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"It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it."
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"It's one of the reasons I don't do drugs. One sniff and I'd go all the way."
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"I'm a Golden Globe nominee, yes. It's very nice. It's a very nice thing, but I kind of think of all the awards I wasn't ever nominated for, for years and things."
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