"One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes."

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"One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes."

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"Without focus you are nothing and nobody......Everything is up to focusing and DEFINITELY YOU SHOULD BE FUCKING CRUCIAL."

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"It's hard to focus on loud mod to read something like the TV is playing something like Advertising and other boredom stuff and stupid and you are reading an article about topics which are difficult one."

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"Your daily output is directly proportional to your daily thoughts while your activity or passivity remains as a constant. You get what you think to do provided you do it!"

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"As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States."

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"I just focus on one show, when this is over then I'll start looking at what is coming up."

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"That's the thing that we said about the horn before: it's a focus issue. It's like a singer versus a drummer. If a drummer's playing a drum beat, and a singer starts singing, what do you think the audience is going to do?"

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"Some kids don't know where they'll spend the night. How can we expect them to focus on learning?"

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"I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's active disengagement."

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"I have made a film about jazz that tries to look through jazz to see what it tells us about who we are as a people. I think that jazz is a spectacularly accurate model of democracy and a kind of look into our redemptive future possibilities."

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"The way I work, the interview never becomes larger than the person being interviewed."

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"I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now."

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