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You should not be carried away by the dictation of the mind, but the mind should be carried by your dictation.
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Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.
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And unlike the rest of you, he hasn’t yet time to ruin his career or his mind." "Then he won’t do. Send him home. Get us another lunatic." "Excuse me!" [hopping up to stand in his seat] "Elassar Targon, master of the universe, reporting for duty!" "I withdraw my objection.
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The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away.
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Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
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I've never tried to manipulate my image.
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The ultimate tyranny in a society is not control by martial law. It is control by the psychological manipulation of consciousness, through which reality is defined so that those who exist within it do not even realize that they are in prison. They do not even realize that there is something outside of where they exist.
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The maniacal lunatics in control of our society know exactly how human beings tick and they are masters at manipulation.
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Well, you always discover a lot in the editing room. Particularly the action, because you have to over-shoot a lot and shoot an enormous amount of material because many of the sequences have to be discovered in the editing and manipulation of it.
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All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much.
