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Donald Pleasence

"The process of building a part doesn't really stop."

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Donna Grant

"A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom."

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Donna Grant

"I have an expensive hobby: buying homes, redoing them, tearing them down and building them up the way they want to be built. I want to be an architect."

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Donna Grant

"Bernstein grew up in my building in New York. He's a very, very fine player. When he was a kid, he came by to find out what was going on in the world of jazz."

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Donna Grant

"I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away."

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Donna Grant

"Barry and I were in the middle of building a house, and I was in the midst of having a nervous breakdown, because that's what you do when you build a house."

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Donna Grant

"In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks."

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Donna Grant

"A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a building that will most likely never be built."

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Donna Grant

"The National Flood Insurance Program is a voluntary program. If a community really feels that the building insurance requirements are too burdensome, they don't have to participate."

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Donna Grant

"Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads when they finished out in the West Coast, and they went down and put the trains into Mexico."

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Donna Grant

"We've already seen how it's going to come in, in a truck, like it did at Oklahoma City at the Federal building or it's going to come in by plane, like it did at the World Trade Center."

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Donald Pleasence
"I think people have a tendency to read into more than there is."

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Donald Pleasence
"It's gotten to the point where it's big news when I don't do a horror film."

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Donald Pleasence
"I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines."

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Donald Pleasence
"I was offered a choice of a flat salary up front or a percentage of the film's future earnings. I took the up front money. Nobody could have figured what Halloween would ultimately become."

Money

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Donald Pleasence
"John and I had a few meetings about what direction the sequel should take. I made some real insane suggestions. True to what you'd expect, he ignored them all and just picked up Halloween II where the original left off."

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Donald Pleasence
"The process of creation goes on all the time. When I get through, I feel I know what the character will do in every situation. But the building up of the part is not mechanical or deliberate. It grows out of the text."

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Donald Pleasence
"Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach."

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Donald Pleasence
"I don't really know how many films I've done, and I don't look at this as a race that I necessarily want to win. Nor is it a race that I want to stop running."

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Donald Pleasence
"I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do."

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Donald Pleasence
"I am not one of those actors who believes he has to live the part he is playing. I can turn it on and off."

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