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“We're not afraid of risking what was our success yesterday in order to explore some new field. We're adventurous. We like the challenge of unknown territory, unknown artistic field, and that's what stimulates us.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“My grandfather had a wonderful funeral... On the buffet table there was a replica of the deceased in potato salad.”
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“The truth is that there are such things as Christian tears, and too few of us ever weep them.”
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“But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of therest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can't stand it. I been there before.”
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“Once you have identified with some form of negativity, you do not want to let it go, and on a deeply unconscious level, you do not want positive change. It would threaten your identity as a depressed, angry or hard-done by person. You will then ignore, deny or sabotage the positive in your life. This is a common phenomenon. It is also insane.”
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“Tim Duncan's foot issue, I think, is a major factor in this year's playoffs. That's not the kind of injury that gets better over time playing NBA basketball.”
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“When I was small, I didn't even know that I was a kid with special needs. Â How did I find out? By other people telling me that I was different from everyone else, and that this was a problem.”
Source : Naoki Higashida (2013). “The Reason I Jump: one boy's voice from the silence of autism: one boy's voice from the silence of autism”, p.2, Hachette UK
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“My great strength as an editor, I believe, is structure: I know how to reorder a piece, I know how to reach into a jumbled story and extract the important narrative. And I can do both of these things very fast. I also think I've become better at cutting text. You don't always relish it, of course, but by now I know how to distill something without sacrificing its essence.”
Source : Interview with Alexis Cheung, believermag.com. November 20, 2017.