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As opposed to a movie [Real Steel] where everything feels fantastical, it was really important to me, and I recognise it's not the first movie with robots in it, but that blend of naturalism in performance, writing and design with the futurism of this sport. That was the idea.
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Cranes carry this heavy mystical baggage. They're icons of fidelity and happiness. The Vietnamese believe cranes cart our souls up to heaven on our wings.
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I was born rather late in [my father's] life, in his mid - 40s. And so what he did up until the time he was 15, I think probably from age 12 to 15, my grandfather made him demonstrate mediumistic powers at the Exeter Street Theater, the first Spiritualist church in the United States.
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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I am endeavoring to steer gymnastics out of a dead end that satisfies only a handful of short-sighted individuals with nostalgia for an era gone by.
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When people disagree with you, what you ultimately have to do is persuade people to agree with you - period.
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It's a blessing as an artist to express myself - whether that be via dance, via song or via speech - in so many different ways.
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It is the safeguard of the strongest that he lives under a government which is obliged to respect the voice of the weakest.
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One person's "paranoia" is another person's "engineering redundancy."
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The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.
