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Heimat. The word mean home in German, the place where one was born. But the term also conveys a subtler nuance, a certain tenderness. One's Heimat is not merely a matter of geography; it is where one's heart lies.
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No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture; but modern history is not a very satisfactory side-arm in political polemics; it grows less and less so.
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Wherever I am in the world, my perfect day begins with waking up and heading to the beach or the pool or somewhere I can be semi-comatose. I just wake up and go to the sun.
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For me, the creative process for me always starts in a personal place. I step away from my iPod or any records or CDs.
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I mean that the function of the police is to solve problems that have law-enforcement consequences in a way that is based on a genuine partnership with the neighborhood in both the venting of the problem and the discussion of the solution
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Obviously, television is a writer's medium, so you get a lot more power and authority. With a film, the discipline is having a beginning, middle and end, and having it work in a specific space of time.
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People might like to think a war is done when a cease fire is signed, but for most people who lived through a war it goes on for decades.
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We know the speaker has received adequate empathy when a. we sense a release of tension, or b. the flow of words comes to a halt.
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Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.
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Truth is such a subjective thing.
