June 2009
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I’m happy to see that success has not gone to your head. In fact I...
– Horshack to Mr. Woodman, “Welcome Back, Kotter”
May 2009
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Sam Raimi is a spaz
“I love the Spider-Man character. And that’s what’s at the heart of it. That’s why I really love it. But there’s another fun thing that I never had before where you make your movie and a lot of people see it and they seem to like it. So it’s like oh my god, I’ve always been the nerd, lame ass guy on the side, but I made something that a lot of people like....
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Once you look past the hype, actors are nothing more than fugitives from reality...
– Bruce Campbell, If Chins Could Kill: Confessions Of A B Movie Actor
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…Sam [Raimi] wanted the climactic sword fight to play out as elegantly as...
– Bruce Campbell, If Chins Could Kill: Confessions Of A B Movie Actor (re Army of Darkness)
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The problem with speculation is that you make a speck out of you and some guy...
– “House”
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Ever since Harold and Maude, people have generally regarded me as an arbiter of...
– Bud Cort
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Helen opened her eyes and gazed into the luminous blue of the sky. Was it crazy,...
– Sarah Waters, The Night Watch
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Elizabeth Gilbert on nurturing creativity | Video on TED.com
Elizabeth Gilbert muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses — and shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person “being” a genius, all of us “have” a genius. It’s a funny, personal and surprisingly moving talk.
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WGBH Radio Programs A-Z →
89.7 WGBH (Boston’s NPR) once kept me alive; specifically, Blues After Hours (now Blues on WGBH), Jazz with Eric in the Evening (it was his voice, I loved, and fell asleep to every night), A Celtic Sojourn, and of course, A Prairie Home Companion.
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from "House"
Wilson: Every time I go to one of your parties, I end up embarrassing myself in some new and unexpected way.
House: That whole thing with the duck was hardly unexpected.
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from "House"
Cameron: If there is some higher order running the universe, it's probably so different from anything our species can conceive there's no point in our even thinking about it....
Foreman: You believe God might exist, but you don't think about it? It's the most important issue--
Cameron: I think penguins might as well speculate about nuclear physics.
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…before he rips my head off and shoves it in my face.
– Bruce Campbell, My Name Is Bruce