Helen Mirren is someone that I have really admired ever since I saw her in 'Excalibur. ' That … - Nicolas Cage

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The true is the name of whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief, and good, too, for definite, assignable reasons.

Nicolas Cage

Helen Mirren is someone that I have really admired ever since I saw her in 'Excalibur. ' That was the first thing I said to her. 'I loved you as Morgan Le Fay. '

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I'm a seeker. I'm very much a believer in science. But I do think there are times when science and mysticism intersect.

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Actors have an opportunity to use storytelling as a way to solve pain.

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Without mentioning any names, I looked at pretty much every story that may come to your mind about a politician on the rise who was stopped short or dragged down by personal flaws and then became just a media storm. I see this as a thing that continues to happen in America and I wanted to say something about that.

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Snakes are sometimes perceived as evil, but they are also perceived as medicine. If you look at an ambulance, there's the two snakes on the side of the ambulance. The caduceus, or the staff of Hermes, there's the two snakes going up it, which means that the venom can also be healing.

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If I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I didn't have that kind of intelligence. Numbers were never my strong point.

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Akhil Sharma

Money is part of how we move through the world, what stores and restaurants we go into, whether we take a train to the airport or a taxi. Describing characters living in the real world requires describing them engaging with money. There are also so many emotional aspects to money - feelings of inadequacy, feelings of security. I am not sure if there needs to be more about money in fiction, but the absence of this aspect can make a story feel somehow frictionless and unreal.

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William James

The true is the name of whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief, and good, too, for definite, assignable reasons.

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Oscar Wilde

To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

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Those who speak of blind obedience may appear to know many things, but they do not understand the doctrines of the gospel. There is an obedience that comes from a knowledge of the truth that transcends any external form of control. We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see.

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