"Listening is a discipline. It's all about being present at that moment in time."
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"Killing time. Its a very crass and breezy expression when you ponder it for a moment, considering that time, after all, is killing us."
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"I guess a great movie would be one that has the most great moments in it."
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"At the end of any of my project I miss the material. I pick subjects I love and then get very engaged with them, so stopping that engagement often feels odd and arbitrary, but there's a moment when I don't want to change anything else and when the shape and length feels right. At that point, continuing would be destructive."
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"There are moments when rather than reforming the human race I'd like to abandon it altogether and go become, say, one of Dr. O'Reilly's macaques, which have to have more sense."
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"Jane, I never meant to wound you thus...Will you ever forgive me?" Reader, I forgave him at the moment and on the spot."
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"The past is history; The future is a mystery; This moment is a gift; That is why this moment is called the present; Enjoy it."
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"Every moment that you share someone else's pain, feel what they feel, makes you more human."
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"The end of the world begins the moment you die."
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"This is not a time to quail, it is not a crisis, nor should we see it as an excuse for wobbling or self-doubt. But it is a moment for hope..."
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"Our children are for life our friends are here for the moment."
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"There came a moment in the middle of the song when he suddenly felt every heartbeat in the room & after that he never forgot that he was part of something much bigger"
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"You have moments of clarity, things become clear to you that you didn't understand before. But there's never any making ends meet or finding any time of longstanding peace of mind about something."
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"The moment you grab someone by the lapels, you're lost."
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"You can’t dress rehearse the bad moments."
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"Any of these moments, you can turn it all around."
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"Tony's [Blair] convinced I'm going to find God. I do have spiritual moments, but I don't think it's God."
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"Likewise and during every day of an unillustrious life, time carries us. But a moment always comes when we have to carry it."
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"Every age has its beautiful moments."
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"Poetry is one of the most full ways of discovering what it feels like to be a human being in this particular moment, in this particular set of concerns. It's all about discovery."
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