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Donald Pleasence

"John Carpenter created the idea of Halloween, so his vision remains the most focused and intelligently directed of the series. The directors that have followed have kept the original intent of the concept."

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"John Carpenter created the idea of Halloween, so his vision remains the most focused and intelligently directed of the series. The directors that have followed have kept the original intent of the concept."

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"There is no battle or engagement with any institution, company or government; it is always an engagement of ideas."

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"But once you become successful, everyone has an idea of what you should do."

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"We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still."

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"But I had no idea that they were going to pull the plug so quickly."

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"We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order."

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"The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event."

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"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."

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"There is an idea, the basis of an internal structure, expanded and split into different shapes or groups of sound constantly changing in shape, direction, and speed, attracted and repulsed by various forces."

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