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May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery.
Down Feel Help Hoping
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Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.

Aggressive American AmericanTradition Another
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No one pours water in a glass that’s already full. Do you need to receive something this season? If yes, then present yourself before God empty!

No one Water Glass Season
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I like to be in my pajamas all day. Sometimes I don't wash for days because I like to read and sit around. I like to eat in bed.

All Day Around Because Bed
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The English language started out as a distortion in my life, but nothing remains the same, and so the distortion is now just normal. That is one of the things that will happen to all distortions: They become normal and turn into something else.

Become Distortion Else English
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You know how some people write every day at a certain point? I'm not like that. I carry something around for a long time. I weigh the words and the sentences. I weigh the paragraphs. The process is much more meditative for me.

Around Carry Certain Certain Point
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When I write nonfiction, it's always absolutely true. There will be no moment in my nonfiction where I have made something up and have to apologize to the bullying hostess of a talk show.

Absolutely Always Apologize Bullying
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Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.

Everybody Family Feed Forget
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Sometimes I feel like I'm a preacher as well, 'cause I can really get into an audience.

Audience Cause Feel Get
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Sometimes it's all about the casting.

About Casting Sometimes
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I can always grow a little bit, and try to do something different. So I'm always looking for what's out there - the potential.

Always Bit Different Grow
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On this ancient and miraculous world, where such beautiful natural and living things have evolved, something has gone wrong when life itself is used as a manufacturing process.

Ancient Beautiful Evolved Gone
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If you can act as if something is true, in a sense that makes it true.

Act Makes Sense Something
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Sometimes miraculous films come into being, made by people you've never heard of, starring unknown faces, blindsiding you with creative genius.

Being Come Creative Faces
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I'm dubious about having Social Security put into the stock market. I think that we have gotten very far away from the idea that there's something sacrosanct about retirement investments.

About Away Dubious Far
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What is courage? Let me tell you what I think it is. An indefinable quality that makes a man put out that extra something, when it seems there is nothing else to give. I dare you to be better than you are. I dare you to be a thoroughbred

Courage Think Quality Man
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We’re not going to be sitting around waiting for something to happen. We’re going to make things happen for ourselves.

Going Sitting around Happen Make things
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But the way people commonly use the word nowadays it means something all of whose parts are mutually interdependent - not only for their mutual action, but for their meaning and for their existence.

Action Commonly Parts Existence
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As far back as I can remember, I knew there was something wrong with our way of life when people could be mistreated because of the color of their skin.

Back Because Color Could
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If you wait until the right time to have a child you'll die childless, and I think film making is very much the same thing. You just have to take the plunge and just start shooting something even if it's bad.

Bad Child Childless Die
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It took me a long time to realize that you have to have a bit of an interlanguage with actors. You have to give them something that they can act with.

Act Actor Bit Give
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Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee.

After Budget Camera Cheesy
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I blame it on Walt Disney, where animals are given human qualities. People don't understand that a wild animal is not something that is nice to pat. It can seriously harm you.

Animal Animals Blame Disney
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Every time you dive, you hope you'll see something new - some new species. Sometimes the ocean gives you a gift, sometimes it doesn't.

Dive Every Every Time Gift
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People call me a perfectionist, but I'm not. I'm a rightist. I do something until it's right, and then I move on to the next thing.

Call Me Move Move On
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People think that what I see diving must drive what I put into films, but that isn't really the case. When I am making a Hollywood production, I am telling a different kind of story. Of course, if I see something interesting that works, we will look at it, but they are different things.

Am Case Course Different
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I feed on other people's creativity, photographers, artists of every kind. Sometimes a feeling that you get listening to a song can be so powerful. I've wanted to write whole scripts around what I felt just listening to a piece of music. I think music is important, and surrounding your visual field with stimulating things.

Around Artists Creativity Every
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To convince people to back your idea, you've got to sell it to yourself and know when it's the moment. Sometimes that means waiting. It's like surfing. You don't create energy, you just harvest energy already out there.

Back Convince Create Energy
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You have to have sharp elbows if you want to change something.

Change Elbows Sharp Something
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Sometimes the right thing gets done for the wrong reason and sometimes, unfortunately, the wrong thing gets done for the right reason.

Done Gets Reason Right
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I know a bit about selling books, and you need a good title - a catchy concoction with a little Cajun spice, something that will make folks stop in the aisles, turn away from the Grisham novels and the latest crazy diet fad, and pick up your masterpiece.

About Away Bit Books
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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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Life is a veil, its paths are dark and rough Only because we do not know enough When Science has discovered something more We shall be happier than we were before.

Life A veil Dark Rough
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The saddest aspect of life is that there is no one on earth whose happiness is such that he won't sometimes wish he were dead rather than alive.

Saddest aspect Life Happiness Wish dead
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Then come at once and pause for breath In chasing wealth. Remembering death And death's dark fires, mix, while you may, Method and madness, work and play. Folly is sweet, well-timed.

Come Breath Chasing wealth Remembering death
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It's necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
Necessary Significant Slightly Something
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I’m hoping we begin to teach our kids a lot of skills, now that they’re way younger, instead of waiting till they get to a tertiary level so that they can have something profitable to do during their leisure time.

Hoping Teach Our kids Skills
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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.

About Enhancing People Some
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We should govern our actions by assuming that people are more good than bad. Whereas, most of our social policies dictate that people are more bad than good. That you know if you do something, it'll be seized by the rich to exploit the poor.

Actions Assuming Bad Dictate
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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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I never could read science fiction. I was just uninterested in it. And you know, I don't like to read novels where the hero just goes beyond what I think could exist. And it doesn't interest me because I'm not learning anything about something I'll actually have to deal with.

About Actually Anything Because
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It feels really sad, to me, to go to a dark bedroom. It's like surrendering to the night or something.

Bedroom Dark Feels Go
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One of the things I've learned as a filmmaker is to have some aspect of the movie be something that I admire greatly, whether that's an actor I'm working with, the subject matter, or a book.

Actor Admire Aspect Book
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If I'm working on a film, I'll do sit-ups for before I shoot. Like, 100 in the morning or something.

Before Film Like Morning
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When I was starting out, doing guest spots on TV, and even commercials, I would go in with a whole crazy wardrobe and some terrible accent. Obviously, I was doing too much. If you bring too much flavor to it, it's absurd. There's something to just being spontaneous.

Absurd Accent Being Bring
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I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.

About Attractive Because Committed
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We will not find the inner strength to evolve to a higher level if we do not inwardly develop this profound feeling that there is something higher than ourselves.

Develop Evolve Feeling Find
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The most important thing in arithmetic is not the shapes of the numbers but the reality living in them. This living reality has much more meaning for the spiritual world than what lives in reading and writing.

Arithmetic Important ImportantThing Lives
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Our task is to find teaching methods that continually engage the whole human being. We would not succeed in this endeavor if we failed to concentrate on developing the human sense of art.

Art Being Concentrate Continually
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Everybody has something to conceal.

Everybody Something Conceal
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