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" Scary things are good, aren't they? "
Tom Sturridge
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" Even the way Mamet describes silences within his plays is different. There are pauses; there are pauses within parentheses; there are pauses before dialogue; there are pauses in the spaces between the dialogue - there's this extraordinary vocabulary of silence which is all there on the page, mapped out. "
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" I felt that my decisions, whether good or bad, would always be supported by my parents, because I was loved and respected. "
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