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" No one wants to spend too long inside their own darkness. "
Nick Nolte
Too
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" Success comes to you with luck and a lot of hard work, but it doesn't give you the right to be any better than anybody else. "
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" If you're older you want to tell stories about the pool of human life and living and to communicate, not only to your age group but to do an age group that can begin to understand, that has enough experience of life far beyond the taste of life. "
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" Violence isn't really my thing. "
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" I have a lot of scars, man. My mother said that a man is not a man unless he has a scar on his face. And what she meant by a scar was some kind of battle that you had to go through, whether it was psychological or physical. To her, a scar was actually beautiful and not something that marred you. "
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