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Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.
Continue Deeds Lives Memories
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If we are to be happy, decent and secure of our souls: drink some kind of fermented liquor with one's food; go on the water from time to time; dance on occasions, and sing in a chorus...

Happy Decent Secure Soul
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I certainly didn't think of myself as gifted. The standards for being gifted in my environment were if you were good in Little League or if you were good in football.

Being Certainly Environment Football
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Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

Loss Possession Death Life
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I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.

Being Citizen Like Second-Class
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I do an awful lot of scuba diving. I love to be on the ocean, under the ocean. I live next to the ocean.

Awful Awful Lot Diving I Love
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Do not, I beseech you, be troubled about the increase of forces already in dissolution. You have mistaken the hour of the night; it is already morning.

Beseech Troubled Increase Dissolution
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I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism.

Environments Escapism Fantasy Fascinated
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I mean, you have to be able - you have to have made the commitment within yourself to do whatever it takes to get the job done and to try to inspire other people to do it, because obviously the first rule is you can't do it by yourself.

Able Because Commitment Done
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Let us look at Jim Crow for the criminal he is and what he has done to one life multiplied millions of times over these United States and the world. He walks us on a tightrope from birth.

Birth Criminal Crow Done
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I watched a couple of really bad directors work, and I saw how they completely botched it up and missed the visual opportunities of the scene when we had put things in front of them as opportunities. Set pieces, props and so on.

Bad Couple Directors Front
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My only concern was to get home after a hard day's work.
After Concern Day Get
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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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It'll be all of our efforts together. It won't won't ever be exactly the way I imagined it. And that is, I think, an important lesson as well, is that in any group enterprise it's going to be the sum total of the group.

Any Efforts Enterprise Ever
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Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.

Alone Desires Felt Free
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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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At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this. It was just a day like any other day. The only thing that made it significant was that the masses of the people joined in.

Any Arrested Day Had
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People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically... No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

Always Because Give Giving
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There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take... The line between reason and madness grows thinner.

Between Disappointment Grows Hurt
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The Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute accepts people of any race. We don't discriminate against anyone. We teach people to reach their highest potential. I set examples by the way I lead my life.

Accepts Against Any Anyone
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You know, in the film making business no one ever gives you anything.
Anything Business Ever Film
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What are you gonna do, talk the alien to death?
Alien Death Gonna Talk
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There is a hugely underserved population out there... those who are the least capable of paying pay the highest.

Capable Highest Hugely Least
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I had felt for a long time that, if I was ever told to get up so a white person could sit, that I would refuse to do so.

Could Ever Felt Get
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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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Nature's imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination.

Boundless Compared Human Human Imagination
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Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression. We soothe ourselves with the salve of attempted indifference, accepting the false pattern set up by the horrible restriction of Jim Crow laws.

Accepting Attempted Begins Crow
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If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.

Above Else Everyone Fail
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I have been refused entrance on the buses because I would not pay my fare at the front and go around to the rear door to enter. That was the custom if the bus was crowded up to the point where the white passengers would start occupying.

Around Because Been Bus
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I try to live with honor, even if it costs me millions of dollars and takes a long time. It's very unusual in Hollywood. Few people are trustworthy - a handshake means nothing to them. They feel they're required to keep an agreement with you only if you're successful or they need you.

Agreement Costs Dollars Even
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I've tried not to get sucked into the Hollywood hierarchy system. Personally, I don't like it when people are deferential to me because I'm an established filmmaker. It's a blue-collar sensibility.

Because Blue-Collar Established Filmmaker
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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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I'm a storyteller; that's what exploration really is all about. Going to places where others haven't been and returning to tell a story they haven't heard before.

About Been Before Exploration
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And I kind of said to myself if I get my voice back I'm not going to take back the old anxiety about it and just focus on the limitations. I'm really going to enjoy it.

About Anxiety Back Enjoy
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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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Inspiration can hit you in the head at any time in any context. It could happen in a conversation. Talking to someone at a party, you can get an idea. But you've got to remember those inspirations.

Any Context Conversation Could
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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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Writing a screenplay, for me, is like juggling. It's like, how many balls can you get in the air at once? All those ideas have to float out there to a certain point, and then they'll crystallize into a pattern.

Air Balls Certain Certain Point
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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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Storytelling is storytelling. You still play by the same narrative rules. The technology is completely different. I don't use one piece of technology that I used when I started directing.

Different Directing Narrative Piece
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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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The only thing I'm running for is the state line.

Line Only Running State
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When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession.
Become Becomes Being Being Famous
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No one will ever accuse James Carville of taking himself seriously.

Accuse Ever Himself James
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I was against gay marriage until I realized I didn't have to get one.
Against Gay Gay Marriage Get
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Every day Catholics prove that you can be a good Catholic and a good Democrat and have a different position from the Church on abortion.

Abortion Catholic Catholics Church
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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 think the Democratic Party has the chronic problem of appearing to be weak, of not standing and fighting for what it believes in, not fighting for its own.

Appearing Believes Chronic Democratic
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You know there's nothing a Hill Democrat would rather do than criticize another Democrat. It is their favorite activity. Then they can read about how honorable they are in an Op-Ed piece, how bipartisan.

About Activity Another Bipartisan
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Most of the stuff I've ever said is pretty insignificant and, by and large, has been said off the cuff and without much thought to the potential consequences.

Been Consequences Ever Has Been
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