"I am a story-teller working with a craft. My job is to use my craft - which is a different thing to my race - and tell a story well."

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Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

Gavin Hood

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“Last night I thought about all the kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books. A man had to think them up. A man had to take a long time to put them down on paper. And I'd never even thought that thought before...It took some man a lifetime maybe to put some of his thoughts down, looking around at the world and life, and then I come along in two minutes and boom! it's all over.”
“Last year, I co-sponsored the Highlands Conservation Act and in a bipartisan effort we passed the bill through Congress.”
“3 years ago I was stocking shelves at Target, living on Ramen noodles, and crashing at Billy's house. Now I'm on tour”
“When Reinhold Messner returned from the first solo climb of Everest, he was severely dehydrated, and utterly exhausted; he fell down most of the last part of the descent, and collapsed on the Rongbuk glacier, and he was crawling over it on hands and knees when the woman who was his entire support team reached him; and he looked up at her out of a delirium, and said, â€œWhere are all my friends?”
“The roots of Cuban music are in my head.”
“There is not, and never was, a greater man than Emil Zatopek.”

Source : Ron Clarke, Norman Harris (1967). “The Lonely Breed”
“I really am not angry with Linus. Honest. He's not angry with me either.”

Source : "Some Notes on the 'Who wrote Linux' Kerfuffle, Release 1.5". www.informit.com. Jun 7, 2004.
“The child from nine to 12 interests me very much. And so, those were the years that I like to write about, when I'm writing.”

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