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“I blew the college boards, and to ease the snub from Harvard made a tour of Europe.”
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“To call them emotional comedies sounds cloying. Like Billy Wilder said, 'You want to make them laugh and you want to make them cry,' and it's very hard to do so. If you ground it in reality, you get a more honest comedy. You don't have to reach for jokes to manufacture situations as much. And I think it's a type of film I do best.”
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“The living are more demanding; the dead can wait.”
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“Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.”
Source : Margaret Atwood (2012). “Surfacing”, p.46, Simon and Schuster
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“In the midst of a culture that is rationally organized for a vocational workaday life, there is hardly any room for the cultivation of acosmic brotherliness, unless it is among strata who are economically carefree. Under the technical and social conditions of rational culture, an imitation of the life of Buddha, Jesus, or Francis seems condemned to failure for purely external reasons.”
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“It's not like I didn't do anything for 10 years and chose a new profession. I've been on the ice a lot. I'm not an outsider.”
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“I've been homeschooling for eight years and have always received the best advice and encouragement from other homeschoolers, rather than a book or lecture.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 
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“When I was growing up, Forest Park was full of integrated families. It was amazing. One my best friends was Vietnamese. Another one was half-Mexican, half-black. Another one was from Colombia. Another one was born in the U.S., but his mom was from Germany and spoke with a German accent. So we all had multiple identities.”
Source : "Dinaw Mengestu on 'All Our Names'". Interview with Kevin Nance, www.chicagotribune.com. March 21, 2014.
