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Imagination is the highest form of research.
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I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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You know, I'm a television personality. It's not like I'm a famous hooker or something!
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When people know what you want, they can then manipulate that to achieve the end that they seek. It's far more interesting and valuable to bear witness to a scene and make good relationships without explicitly seeking something. You're more likely to obtain a far richer and honest experience that way.
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It may be that poetry makes life's nebulous events tangible to me and restores their detail; or conversely, that poetry brings forth the intangible quality of incidents which are all too concrete and circumstantial. Or each on specific occasions, or both all the time.
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Popular films are so powerful and compelling that it's often easier to accept their versions of history than the much more complicated true stories.
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And in this community, as in all others, the Golden Rule still applies - we must be act toward other nations as we would have them act towards America.
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Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment - a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer. The question is this: What change will death produce in a man's existence and in his insight into the nature of things? It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.
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Nobody really wants to hear about anybody else's injuries. Or how your back feels. Whose back doesn't hurt?
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I worked in an insurance office for six years, and it was there that I just woke up one day and realised there was something massively lacking in my life, and a non-contributory pension and a subsidised canteen could not fill it.
