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Ellis Peterss historical detail is very accurate and very minute,

Ellis Peterss historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to acquire a sense of the period. And the other thing I think is that an actor lives in the land of imagination. – Derek Jacobi

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I think my parents were happy that Id gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought, Well if acting doesnt work for him, he can always become a history teacher or something. Fortunately, the acting worked out. – Derek Jacobi

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Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to peoples knowledge of those characters. – Derek Jacobi

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I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination. – Derek Jacobi

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They are imaginary characters. But perhaps not solely the products of my imagination, since there are some aspects of the characters that relate to my own experience of a wide variety of people. – Margaret Mahy

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Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life. – Simone Weil

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We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have – for their usefulness. – Thomas Merton

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