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I don't use film cameras. I don't do visual effects the same way. We don't use miniature models; it's all CG now, creating worlds in CG. It's a completely different toolset. But the rules of storytelling are the same.

Cameras Creating Different Effects
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But I'd rather not predict. I'd rather affect.

Affect But Predict Rather
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Like a lot of people, I pray for a sick relative or that kind of thing, but I don't pray to make my next flight connection at the airport. I find prayers before sports contests to be insensitive and kind of demeaning, at least when someone prays to beat the other team or something like that.

Airport Beat Before Connection
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Politics is a messy business, but campaigning prepares you for governing. It prepares you to get hit, stand strong, and, if necessary, hit back.

Back Business Campaigning Get
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My high school job was putting insulation in attics - in Louisiana in the summer. It must have been 95 degrees every day, and the insulation used to get all over me. It was not fun. But I didn't know any different. It wasn't like I was spending summers on Cape Cod.

Any Been Cape Day
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But you can't show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture. You've got to show what it's really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.

Behavior Come Conception Far
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I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.

Demands Disproportion Fault I Think
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That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw

Man Best Truth Good
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But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.

Thinks Learns Others Failure
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Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death.

Giving Good Taking Bad
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False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.

False shame Poor Harms Greatly
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Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better

Wealth Seized God given
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When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness.

When you Deal Your brother Pleasant
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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Speak Many falsehoods Real things
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But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor's troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.

Mankind Troubles Market Exchanging them
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The most hateful grief of all human griefs is this, to have knowledge of the truth but no power over the event

Hateful grief Human Have knowledge Truth
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Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.

Happiness Fame Riches Inspire posterity
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No one is so senseless as to choose of his own will war rather than peace, since in peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.

Senseless Choose War Peace
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Now it happened that this Candaules was in love with his own wife; and not only so, but thought her the fairest woman in the whole world. This fancy had strange consequences.

Happened In love Wife Fairest woman
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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.

Many exceedingly Rich men Unhappy
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The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.

Planned badly Fortune Stroke Luck
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But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.

Like Great success Jealous The gods
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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.

God Suffer presumption Anyone
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It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.

One thing Alone Many ways Freedom
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He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.

Best man Plans Fears Reflects
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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Knowledge Give weight Accomplishment People
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Our resistance will be long and painful, but whatever the sacrifices, however long the struggle, we shall fight to the end, until Vietnam is fully independent and reunified.

Our resistance Painful Sacrifices Fight
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You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.

You can kill Will lose Win
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You will kill ten of us, we will kill one of you, but in the end, you will tire of it first.
Will kill Ten One The end
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The rice grain suffers under the blow of the pestle. But admire its whiteness once the order is over. So it is with men and the world we live in. To be a man one must suffer the blows of misfortune.

Rice grain Suffers Men World
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One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

Also Conception Contrast Could
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Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.
Make money Fair means
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Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.

Accepted Adherence Based Everyone
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Times are hard without a doubt. Many are ill, have lost their jobs etc. But always believe that things will get better. Remember, everything in this world is temporary. So the sadness, anxiety & overthinking will pass. Bear patience for a while longer. Eternal bliss awaits us!

Times Hard Lost Jobs
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I never wanted to be liked by the majority of people, but there were always some people that I desperately wanted to be liked by. And so you've got to behave in a way that... the way I put it is that if you want to be a real intellectual, you've got to have someone to save you.

Always Behave Desperately Got
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If someone's liver doesn't work, we blame it on the genes; if someone's brain doesn't work properly, we blame the school. It's actually more humane to think of the condition as genetic. For instance, you don't want to say that someone is born unpleasant, but sometimes that might be true.

Actually Be True Blame Born
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As a young player, I always thought I was doing everything I could. But the longer you play, the more you learn, and the better you're prepared for what this game throws at you

Young player Thought Doing everything
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If you go into science, I think you better go in with a dream that maybe you, too, will get a Nobel Prize. It's not that I went in and I thought I was very bright and I was going to get one, but I'll confess, you know, I knew what it was.

Better Bright Confess Dream
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I have a son, who is a... not an ordinary form of schizophrenia, but clearly, cannot take care of himself. And the great fear of then, of all parents is, when the parents die, who takes care of your child? And the answer is: they become homeless.

Answer Become Cannot Care
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The best way to respond to this pandemic is to maintain a sense of calm and hope. It can be difficult with the influx of daily news that causes anxiety. But we must, for our own sanity. Listen to what the experts tell you, not those who fear monger. Above all, trust the Almighty.

Best way Pandemic Maintain Calm
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I've had strong opinions probably since I was born. It makes you unpopular, but what can you do?

Born Had I Was Born Makes
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It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.

Nice Be important More
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A clone of Einstein wouldn't be stupid, but he wouldn't necessarily be any genius, either.

Any Clone Einstein Either
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It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

Accord Borne Engine Excellent
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Knowledge is the parent of knowledge. He who possesses most of the information of his age will not quietly submit to neglect its current acquisitions, but will go on improving as long as means and opportunities offer; while he who finds himself ignorant of most things, is only too apt to shrink from a labour which becomes Herculean.

Acquisitions Age Apt Becomes
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A lot of the people in San Francisco think of themselves as healers - not just as people delivering this base service, but giving their clients spiritual help. It's almost like being an actor, playing a different part for each trick.

Actor Almost Base Being
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The new record started out being about loss, but it's morphed into being about how relationships go on even though one person is not in a body anymore.

About Anymore Being Body
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When I was a child, I wanted to be an actor, but I had really bad buckteeth. I didn't want to get braces, but my mom said I couldn't be an actor if I didn't get the braces. So, I got the braces.

Actor Bad Braces Child
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Acting is an art form and you want to take roles that are challenged and it's more of a challenge I think to play dark characters. Not that I want to always play those, but it is a challenge and challenges are rewarding and fun.

Acting Always Art Art Form
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When we were doing 'Freaks and Geeks', I didn't quite understand how movies and TV worked, and I would improvise even if the camera wasn't on me. I thought I was helping the other actors by keeping them on their toes, but nobody appreciated it when I would trip them up. So I was improvising a little bit back then, but not in a productive way.

Actor Appreciated Back Bit
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