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You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
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Express your most powerful thought in the shortest sentence.
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Language allows us to reach out to people, to touch them with our innermost fears, hopes, disappointments, victories. To reach out to people we'll never meet. It's the greatest legacy you could ever leave your children or your loved ones: The history of how you felt.
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In the Middle East, Iraq , Sudan , the former Yugoslavia and Northern Ireland, and many other places in the world , religion has been so divisive that people have killed one another, believing they were doing the work of God .
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I take care to only teach courses about fiction film. I believe that this balances and broadens my documentary work.
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If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero.
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You have an advantage in life when you start where others talk first.
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The way that I see third person is it's actually first person. Writing for me is all voice work. Third person narrative is just as character-driven as first person narrative for me in terms of a voice. I don't write very much in third person.
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A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.
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Things that happen along the way determine the final result. I think the pain and suffering I went through in the past... lead me here today.
