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"I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder."
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"Sense isn't democratic. An opinion uttered by 99 people does not necessarily make more sense than an opposing opinion that was uttered by one person."

"Sense isn't democratic. A senseless opinion that's advocated by 'the majority' is still senseless."

"Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will."

"I who am blind can give one hint to those who see: Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. And the same method can be applied to the other senses. Hear the music of voices, the song of a bird, the mighty strains of an orchestra, as if you would be stricken deaf tomorrow. Touch each object as if tomorrow your tactile sense would fail. Smell the perfume of flowers, taste with relish each morsel, as if tomorrow you could never smell and taste again. make the most of every sense; glory in the beauty which the world in all the facets of pleasure reveals to you through the several means of contact which Nature provides. But of all the senses, I am sure that sight is the most delightful."

"Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion."

"In the broad and sweeping sense which the use of the term generally implies, I am not a free-trader."

"It makes no sense to talk of the social obligations of the corporation without reference to its economic obligations. The two are intertwined."

"We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us."
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"On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away."


"While we all could agree that the Zionist ideal is alive and well, there is serious doubt whether the Zionist movement can be said to be an ongoing proposition, fragmented as its components are in ideology and in practice."


"As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government."


"If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to."


"I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing."


"No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations."


"You always draw on your experiences with live audiences to know how to do comedy on films. You're working for a laugh that may or may not come six months later, but you're working in a vacuum at the time you are doing it."


"The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before."
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