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“After the enormous success of All About my Mother, all the awards and everything, I wanted to start a movie in exactly the same place that I used to be before. I wanted to show that all of the success had not changed my perception.”
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“I do what I do because it is the right thing to do. I am a warrior, and it is the way of the warrior to fight superior odds.”
Source : "Paul Watson: Sea Shepherd's stern 'warrior' defies Japanese whalers" by John Vidal, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2010. 
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“When it comes down to it, at the end of the day, I need more out of my life and I need to push myself harder. And if at the end of the day I don't have it, then I don't have it, but at least I'm going to put myself out there. If I fail, I'm going to fail terrifically.”
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“Notre Dame had a ... sorta... statistical defense.”
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“Take a quart of nature, boil it down to a pint, and the residue is art.”
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“The danger with hatred is, once you start in on it, you get a hundred times more than you bargained for. Once you start, you can't stop.”
Source : Philip Roth (2000). “The Human Stain: A Novel”, p.328, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it or you don't. You can't attain it. There are terrible forms of professional humor, the humorists' humor. That can be awful. It depresses me because it is artificial. You can't always be humorous, but a professional humorist must. That is a sad phenomenon.”
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“Of course, it gave the studio an enormous power, because I don't know any other place who had that skill with images to communicate with. And the need of these kinds of images are even greater now than they ever were because we are losing our life symbols.”
