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“There are loads of sociopolitical, racial, class and future-planet situations that really interest me, but I'm not really interested in making a film about them in a film that feels like reality because people view that in a different way. I like using science fiction to talk about subjects through the veneer of science fiction.”
Source : Interview with Geoff Boucher, herocomplex.latimes.com. January 4, 2010.
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“I want to draw and study a few things closely by feeling, not thinking.”
Source : Marion Milner (2011). “A Life of One's Own”, p.27, Taylor & Francis
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“Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we're doing with their money?”
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“Fear of repeating oneself, of repeating oneself may be the greatest bugaboo of late capitalist society. The fear has been marketed so effectively that a will to sustain attention on any one thing can be cancelled out easily in favour of the latest distraction.”
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“Laws can't control the lawless.”
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“My idea of a productive day, as both a child and an adult, was reading for hours and staring out the window.”
Source : Gail Caldwell (2010). “Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship”, p.24, Random House
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“I was put into jail as I was going to the shoemaker's to get a shoe which was mended. When I was let out the next morning, I proceeded to finish my errand, and, having put on my mended shoe, joined a huckleberry party, who were impatient to put themselves under my conduct; and in half an hour - for the horse was soon tackled - was in the midst of a huckleberry field, on one of our highest hills, two miles off, and then the State was nowhere to be seen.”
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“We don't have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that's what I want in life.”
Source : Marina Keegan (2014). “The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories”, p.1, Simon and Schuster