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"Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much."
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Personal Development
"I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful?"
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Personal Development
"A series of disconcerting questions nibbles at hearts of troubled youths. These same unanswered questions, along with their acerbic toxins, reveal their pungent fumes more frequently and with greater intensity as a person rushes headfirst into life's concrete jungle."
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Personal Development
"Never ask a bore a question."
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Personal Development
"My basic approach to interviewing is to ask the basic questions that might even sound naive, or not intellectual. Sometimes when you ask the simple questions like 'Who are you?' or 'What do you do?' you learn the most."
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Personal Development
"Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know."
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Personal Development
"I can see that you are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or a different time: What's the same and what's different?"
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Personal Development
"And the sculptor woman was so clever in the way she did it. She had the beret just about to leave my hand. So it's attached to this finger and that's what will keep it there. And I'm looking up at it, so there's no question but that that beret is going to fly."
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Personal Development
"Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?"
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Personal Development
"I'm different, and my manner invites questions. I'm never afraid to answer."
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"We don't have any rules about how we depict violence, or how much violence is in a movie. It's a calibration on a case-by-case basis."
Rules
"I guess there's a certain amount of poking fun at certain characters, but that's because there is something amusing about them or about the way they behave, so I guess you can say that that's poking fun at the character. But the character is your own invention, so who cares?"
Character
"Maybe our telling of the story wasn't as clear as it should have been, but I don't think that's true. In terms of understanding the story, it comes across."
Story
"These things are hard to pin down. We work on a script a bit, then work on a different one."
Work
"The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story."
Architecture
"When you do a writing job for a studio, one of the things you want to do is satisfy the expectations of your employer. That's a little bit different than when you sit down and write something to satisfy yourself, because then you're the employer."
Expectation
"I couldn't have been happier with the relationship we had with Disney, it couldn't have been easier."
Disney
"We create monsters and then we can't control them."
Control
"I'd be perfectly happy never to have to answer anything again about how I work with Ethan, or whether we have arguments, or... you know what I mean? I've been answering those questions for 20 years. I suppose it's interesting to people."
Work
"When we do a movie with the studios, they wouldn't be asking us to do it, I don't think, if it was a movie they wanted to get into themselves. What you see is what you get with us, so they let us do what we want to do."
Want
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