"The purpose of fiction is not to nail you to the ground as facts do, but to take you to the edge of the cliff and kick you off so you build your wings on the way down."
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"Although I could never get used to the constant state of anxiety in which the guilty, the great, and the tenderhearted live, I felt I was doing my best in the way of mimicry."
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"I want to see you shoot the way you shout."
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"I always knew that God's way was the best, that I wanted to wait, and that I valued purity."
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"I don't go to McDonald's anymore. After I saw Super Size Me... no way!"
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"One way to compensate for a tiny brain is to pretend to be dead."
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"People love to see themselves on screen in a way that makes sense and seems on point."
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"When the subject is strong, simplicity is the only way to treat it."
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"The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me."
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"A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free."
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"There're many ways, my dear, to victimize people. The most insidious way is to persuade them that they're victims."
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"Those that say it is the taking part and not the winning that is important are, for me, wrong. It is the other way round."
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"You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want using whatever life gives you along the way."
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"Making a movie is like a marathon, and commercials are like sprints - they're equally satisfying, but in different ways."
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"Disordered love always leads to misery and breakdown. The only way to 'reorder' our loves is to love God supremely."
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"It will take you less time and effort to do a thing the difficult way than it will to buy, try and discard all the shortcuts."
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"Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn."
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"Thinking in pictures is, therefore, only a very incomplete form of becoming conscious. In some way, too, it stands nearer to unconscious processes than does thinking in words, and it is unquestionably older than the latter both ontogenetically and phylogenetically."
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"The nearest way to glory a shortcut, as it were is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be."
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"Spirit is the third, yet in such a way that one can speak of a synthesis only when the spirit is posited."
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