"Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality."

People, Character, Personality

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"Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality."

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"Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution."

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"The worst kind of lying I've ever done is keeping things from people."

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"It is often said that the magnitude of a people is measured by their ability to know how to win."

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"The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people."

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"I met with people who are already very angry with the tribunal."

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"The people of our state will no longer tolerate advocates of treason."

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"It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting."

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"The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not."

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"Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly."

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"Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality."

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"Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite."

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"Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve."

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"I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor."

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"You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are."

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"I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do."

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"One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand."

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