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David Selby

"The movie wasn't really derived from Dark Shadows - they developed a whole new script for that particular one."

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"The movie wasn't really derived from Dark Shadows - they developed a whole new script for that particular one."

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"I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see."

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"I'll often rush out from Dark Shadows, having made a 5.30PM appointment, working for a couple of hours."

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"Getting out from under the shadow of Henry Fonda was difficult."

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"I'm always shy in front of an audience, so I'm always at the back, in the shadows, just doing it. I don't like the front, the adulation."

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"The evil components of our shadow are the part of us that we deplore, the part of us that we prefer not to admit. One must set themselves free from all inhibitions in order to initiate close encounters with their innermost monster. By standing toe-to-toe with the part of ourselves that we most detest, a person is in a position to slay their fiendish sense of self and, by doing so, undergo a soulful transformation."

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"One is forever throwing away substance for shadows."

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"But maybe you carried your demons with you everywhere, the way you carried your shadow."

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"The black shadow cares for itself, not for you."

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"Without black, no color has any depth. But if you mix black with everything, suddenly there's shadow - no, not just shadow, but fullness. You've got to be willing to mix black into your palette if you want to create something that's real."

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"Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones."

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"Right right, because up to that point I had not been a viewer, and I didn't know alot about the show, it was all new to me and the cast members were wonderful!"
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"The only thing I wish I had kept were all the peace beads, because in the 1960s people made these and hung them at protests and it was a wonderful thing."
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"But I had no idea that they were going to pull the plug so quickly."
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"When I entered college, I wasn't sure what I was going to do. My advisor happened to be from the theater department, and he encouraged me to take some classes there, which I did."
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"The thing of it is though that's the only way people know you, they see you in that roll and they see you in person and they only know the perception of what you are."
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"And it was so special, and to tell you the truth that's how I feel about the whole thing, I mean when I meet someone that has watched the show, and it has brought such joy to them, it just makes you feel so good."
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"When you succeed at creating your own world, whether it's in any realm - like Tolkien was able to do - and people are able to enter that world, it's a special thing."
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"And I haven't met too many actors along the way that haven't told me how much the show has meant to them. It's one of the reasons they say they are doing what they're doing, today."
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"I think family is very important in West Virginia and has long been so because the mountains made travel difficult in the past, and family members had to depend on each other."
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"I was delighted to have lines when they came - learning lines for film isn't a problem, but television is a little different, because we shot those shows the whole way through."
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