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- The world is full of things that upset people. But most of us deal with it and move on and don't try and burn the…
- It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.
- The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
- I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't…
- If you're on a freeway and want to know if you're being followed, what you do is enormously vary your speed. You accelerate to 100…
- History could claw upward as well as down. The powerful could be deafened by the cries of the poor.
- we look up and we hope the stars look down, we pray that there may be stars for us to follow, stars moving across the…
- I always thought storytelling was like juggling [...] You keep a lot of different tales in the air, and juggle them up and down, and…
- Everest silences you...when you come down, nothing seems worth saying, nothing at all. You find the nothingness wrapping you up, like a sound. Non-being. You…
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