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“Watching TV mum said," Do you miss your dad?" And I said," Who?”
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“Players respond to coaches who really have their best interests at heart.”
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“Nerds are running the world. Andrew Garfield made a movie [called “The Social Networkâ€] about it. Nerds are no longer pariahs and knowing how to write computer code is longer a [mocked] quality. What was important in those early comics was this notion that Peter Parker is an outsider and how we define that in a contemporary context. That, I think, was one of the challenges for us — getting Peter Parker’s outsider status to be current.”
Source : "‘Spider-Man’ director Marc Webb feels a ‘responsiblity to reinvent’ the hero". Interview with Geoff Boucher, herocomplex.latimes.com. July 18, 2011.
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“I'm going to come back to West Virginia when this is over. There's something ancient and deeply-rooted in my soul. I like to think that I have left my ghost up one of those hollows, and I'll never really be able to leave for good until I find it. And I don't want to look for it, because I might find it and have to leave." - from a letter to his mother Helen Pancake that Breece wrote in Charlottesville, where he was studying writing.”
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“A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness.”
Source : Hermann Ebbinghaus (1913). “Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology”
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“What’s broken is broken—and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I live…I’m too old to believe in such sentimentalities as clean slates and starting all over.”
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“Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.”
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“Strategic planning for projects management using a project management maturity model”