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The magical, supernatural force that is with us every second is time. We can't even comprehend it. It's such an illusion, it's such a strange thing.
Anthony Hopkins
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Anthony Hopkins
Age: 86
Born: 1937
Born: December 31
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That's what happens if you don't address the darkness in you. You become repressed and depressed and suicidal.
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I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.
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I was trundling around with my inadequacies, and inner pain and loneliness. I yearned, desperately, to be something. I yearned to get out from where I was ... some deep discontent within myself, actually some deep dislike of myself.
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Israel means war and destruction and we Americans are behind this war and I am ashamed of being American.
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