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Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.

Children Come Curriculum Early
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It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate.
About Being Combination Exciting
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Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.

Working hard Very important Get anywhere
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The story being told in 'Star Wars' is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you're in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they're actually not.

Story Star wars Classic one Retold
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There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry.

Advise Congress Distinct Duties
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Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't.

Issue Achievement Set Realistic goals
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When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture.

Film maker Desperate Survive End
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You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.
Put One foot Keep going Right ahead
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Everybody has talent, it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is.

Everybody Talent Moving around Discovered
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A lot of people like to do certain things, but they're not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.

People Certain things Keep going Good
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Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.

High school Interested History People do
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Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.

Arts Been Every Go
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If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office.

Boy Girl Walk off Sunset
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'Star Wars' is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It's what they want.

Fun Exciting Inspirational People respond
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You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.

Before Evidence Existed Front
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Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.

Whatever Happened Innovation Immaculate reality
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Making a film is like putting out a fire with sieve. There are so many elements, and it gets so complicated .

Making Film Sieve Element
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To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one's youth back again?

Renewed Everything One ask Youth back
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The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.

Secret Give up Something worthwhile
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I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in.

Loved photography Crazy thing Day nobody
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There wasn't much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult, but I was always very interested in what motivates people, and in telling stories and building things.

Kids Inspired me Adult Interested
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I am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God's bidding.

Trying Struggle Through life God's bidding
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It's hard work making movies. It's like being a doctor: you work long hours, very hard hours, and it's emotional, tense work. If you don't really love it, then it ain't worth it.

Hard work Movies Long hours Emotional
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Changes are not unusual - I mean, most movies, when they release them, they make changes. But somehow, when I make the slightest change, everybody thinks it's the end of the world.

Changes Unusual Movies Release them
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I'm not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn it into a living.
Spent My time School daydreaming Living
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Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

Earth Effort Endless Heaven
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Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
Child Discouraged Every God
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The way I define 'intelligent design' is that when people started out, we wanted to make sense of the world we lived in, so we created stories about how things worked.

Intelligent When people Started out Make sense
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Age considers; youth ventures.

Age Considers Ventures Youth
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I started out in anthropology, so to me how society works, how people put themselves together and make things work, has always been a big interest.
Anthropology Society works People put
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Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

Difficulty Disturb Every Ghost
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Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

Bird Dark Dawn Faith
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Football games are on TV, and it doesn't affect stadium attendance at all. It's the same with movies. People who really love movies and like to go out on a Saturday night will go to the movie theater.

Football games Stadium attendance Movie
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We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.
Freedom Full Gain Paid
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All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour, so even when you're using charcoal on a wall or designed the proscenium arch, that's technology.

All art Dependent Technology Human endeavour
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Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.

Child Dismiss First First Time
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There should be a point to movies. Sure, you're giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.

Movies People Diversion World
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

Blade Bleed Hand Knife
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I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

Acted Behold Dreamt Joy
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There's no difference between movies and television. None at all. Except in a lot of cases, television's much better than movies.

Difference Movie Television Cases
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The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.
Technology Keep moving Easier Tell
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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Bondage Emancipation Freedom Soil
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Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.

Dust God Greater Idol
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I've always been a follower of silent movies. I see film as a visual medium with a musical accompaniment, and dialogue is a raft that goes on with it.

Follower Silent movies Visual medium
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Film is a very tight little box. If you don't fit in that box, you're gone. Television, there's more room to move around.

Film Tight Little box Gone
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The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

Burden Laugh Myself Self
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One thing about 'Star Wars' that I'm really proud of is that it expands the imagination. That's why I like the 'Star Wars' toys.

One thing Proud Expands Imagination
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We live in the world when we love it.
Live Love World
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I realized why directors are such horrible people - in a way - because you want things to be right, and people will just not listen to you, and there is no time to be nice to people, no time to be delicate.

Realized Director Horrible people Right
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Everyone seems to think that digital technology devoid the medium of content, but that is not true at all. If anything, it broadens the content.

Everyone seems Digital technology Medium Content
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