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"I decided at 40 I was wasting entire chunks of my brain and didn't want to blow my one chance on Earth. I'm glad I made that decision. Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space. Sometimes, as with film, you can hybridize, but I think it's basically the space part of my brain wanting equal footing with the time part."
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"Urgency means paying the details the attention they deserve, with the respect they deserve, without delay."
"Don't let your phone calls, online chats, and other trivial activities manage you. You have to manage them because they don't have the dreams to fulfill; you have the dreams."
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"Men constantly miscalculate what they can do in a day, and grossly underestimate what can be achieved in a year."
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"We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes."
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"If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis."
"When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon."
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