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Our scribblings are usually not lyrics but whirrings, without colour or resonance, like the tone of an engine-wheel. I believe that the cause lies in the fact that when people write, they forget for the most part to dig deeply into themselves and to feel the whole import and truth of what they are writing.

Believe Cause Colour Deeply
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Writing about dead white males seems to be out of favor among academics.

About Academics Among Dead
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The existing legal constitution is nothing but the product of a revolution. Revolution is the act of political creation in the history of classes, while constitutional legislation is the expression of the continual political vegetation of a society.

Act Classes Constitution Constitutional
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Good governance is crucial and as President, I also have no intention of curtailing anyone’s freedom and arresting people arbitrarily, as long as they respect the rule of law and remain non-violent.

Remain Law Rule Respect
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I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.
Only person Distinction Depression
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There were 900 books on Washington when I began writing on him.
Began Books Him Washington
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In fighting for peace, wherever peace is under attack, we join the rest of the world that means well for humanity.

Humanity World Rest Attack
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New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

New discoveries Science Create Adventure
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Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.

Free government Most difficult Everlastingly true
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We all need to become more customer-focused and recognize the power of marketing to sell more diamonds.

Become Diamonds Marketing More
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I don't think Africa gets as much credit as it should have on the world stage. People tend to think of us as coming from The Dark Continent, where nothing good goes on. That's not true. A huge amount of, as I say, entrepreneurship goes on.

Africa Amount Coming Continent
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Businesses need certainty, to see clearly the rules of engagement for investing in South Africa.
Africa Businesses Certainty Clearly
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I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sense because I could draw and paint. But I kept watching that guy over there who was moving the actors around and setting up the shots.

Actor Actually Around Because
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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 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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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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Whites would accuse you of causing trouble when all you were doing was acting like a normal human being instead of cringing.

Accuse Acting Being Causing
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So much of literary sci-fi is about creating worlds that are rich and detailed and make sense at a social level. We'll create a world for people and then later present a narrative in that world.

About Create Creating Detailed
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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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Being in the studio is like painting, you know, you can really take your time, and try different things, and kind of go deep into it.

Being Deep Different DifferentThings
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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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But there's nothing that gives me more thrill than when I'm writing and a couplet works. I find the right rhyme, or it's just perfect. There's nothing that exciting.

Exciting Find Gives Just
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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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I believe 3D is inevitable because it's about aligning our entertainment systems to our sensory system. We all have two eyes; we all see the world in 3D. And it's natural for us to want our entertainment in 3D as well. It's just getting the technology - it's really more the business model than the technology piece. We've solved the technology.

About Because Believe Business
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If you want to be angry at Gore, be angry at him for not fighting harder in Florida.

Angry Fighting Florida Gore
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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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Punditry is like weather forecasting: the winds can shift without warning. I remember when nobody would bet a McDonald's Quarter Pounder that Bill Clinton would win the White House.

Bet Bill Bill Clinton Clinton
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Politics is a rough and tumble business, and yet there seems to be an effort by the commentariat to sanitise American politics to some type of high-level Victorian debating society.

American American Politics Business Debating
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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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If you want to believe that the government's coming for our guns or that being gay is a choice and a sin or that ObamaCare signals the end of civilization or that cutting taxes for rich people is the path to a better America, that's your choice. I'm never going to believe in any of that.

America Any Being Believe
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To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.

Acting Express Great Logical
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When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.

Acting Actor Anyone Director
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Never wade through the pretty ripples of perpetually flowing rivers, until you have looked at their lovely waters, and prayed to them, and washed your hands in the pale enchanting water.

Never wade Pretty ripples Flowing rivers
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What you allow is what will continue, you attract the energy you want.

Allow Continue Attract Energy
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STOP letting folk make you think your discernment is off. You know what you see! You are too anointed to be disappointed. Too blessed to be stressed. And, too grateful to be hateful!

Folk Stop Discernment Too blessed
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Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal, while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before

Give up Designs Goal Victory
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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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I shall therefore discourse equally of both, convinced that human happiness never continues long in one stay.

Discourse equally Human happiness Continues long
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The destiny of man is in his own soul.

Destiny Man Own soul
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Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

Adversity Effect Eliciting talents Lain dominant
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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.

Biology Interesting Least More
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Humour is often stronger and more effective than sharpness in cutting knotty issues.

Humour Stronger Effect Sharpness
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Of writing well, be sure, the secret lies In wisdom :therefore study to be wise.

Writing well Secret Wisdom Be wise
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It is not enough for poems to be beautiful; they must be affecting, and must lead the heart of the hearer as they will.

Enough Poem Beautiful Affecting
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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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Congrats our dear and able Governor for your giant strides in one year.May the Almighty God continue to guide and guard you .

Congrats Able Almighty God Continue
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