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" I've never seen a poltergeist, but I do believe there is more than what we see, that there is more than just this. "

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" Eccentricity is usually owned by middle-class and upper-class people. If you are working class and eccentric, then you're just mad. "

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" The older I get, the more I feel that's all we are: a big bunch of feelings and instincts all wrapped up in some brief encounter with intellect. "

" You create a proto-human being out of people that you've encountered in your life, and you start building up this person and start becoming this person. "

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" I believe that a world that doesn't have some kind of magic in it wouldn't be worth living in. "

" I love a cinema with two people in it. Love it! Absolutely love it! "

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