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![“I tried documentaries.It wasn't the time for me. I was going to try to do the same thing, I did make a valiant attempt but it did not work - to do the same thing with documentaries that we had done with the book club [in 2011]. The zeitgeist wasn't ready. It just wasn't ready.” quote by Oprah Winfrey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0b2/oprah-winfrey-186_book_i-tried-documentaries-it-wasn-t-the-time_590976.png)
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