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"If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart."
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"So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground."
"What have you given the world it never possessed before you came?"
"And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world."
"Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world."
"The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?"
"I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?"
"In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich."
"The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world."
"Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world."
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"When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music."
"I'm happy that I'm alive. I feel like someone coming back from Vietnam, you know; I'm sure that later on I'll start killing people in a square somewhere, but right now, I just feel happy to be alive."
"That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them."
"Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made without a plan. Improvisation without a plan is like tennis without tennis balls."
"If I made a musical in the beginning of my career, it would have been crane shots and tracking shots and people coming out of cakes and whatever, but these techniques are something that I've left behind me."
"Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work."
"Far be it from me to force anyone into either chess or dressage, but if you choose to do so yourself, in my opinion there is only one way: follow the rules."
"I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema."
"More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all."
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