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Jack Nicholson Actor, Filmmaker
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"As a means of supporting experiential element in film, once I begin to work on a particular movie I consider myself to be the tool of the director."

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Neil Gaiman Author
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"I like horror, but I tend to like it as seasoning. I'd get very bored if I was told I had to write a horror novel. I'd love to write a novel with horror elements, but too much, and it doesn't taste of anything else."

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Marcus Aurelius Philosopher, Emperor
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"That which has died falls not out of the universe. If it stays here, it also changes here, and is dissolved into its proper parts, which are elements of the universe and of thyself. And these too change, and they murmur not"."

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Marcus Aurelius Philosopher, Emperor
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"Above, below, all around are the movements of the elements. But the motion of virtue is in none of these: it is something more divine, and advancing by a way hardly observed it goes happily on its road."

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Lauryn Hill Singer, Songwriter
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"We have to make sure the music and the message and the words and all the elements come through in our songs and every time we appear in public."

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Francis Ford Coppola Film Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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"To make great movies, there is an element of risk. You have to say, 'Well, I am going to make this film, and it is not really a sure thing.'"

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"So, in every case if you really love someone there is an element of submission to them because you want what's best for them, and at times they're going to tell you what's best for them. Even if you have second thoughts about it, you'll probably still do it because you love them."

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"I've translated a lot of American literature into Japanese, and I think that what makes a good translator is, above all, a feel for language and also a great affection for the work you're translating. If one of those elements is missing the translation won't be worth much."

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"From now on I will consider a language to be a set (finite or infinite) of sentences, each finite in length and constructed out ofa finite set of elements. All natural languages in their spoken or written form are languages in this sense."

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