I was coming from a very ...

I was coming from a very cerebral, dark, difficult, layered play by Christopher Hampton and doing an action movie in Hollywood (Die Hard) with explosions, and I was holding a gun.
I was coming from a very cerebral, dark, difficult, layered play by Christopher Hampton and doing an action movie in Hollywood (Die Hard) with explosions, and I was holding a gun.
 Alan Rickman

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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