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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
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Personal Development
"If you are not being bullied all I would say - cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well - is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there's someone in your class that maybe doesn't have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person."
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"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."
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"He not busy being born is busy dying."
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Personal Development
"Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar."
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Personal Development
"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."
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"Being is more important than doing."
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"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."
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"You can watch any episode you want and have a compelling story being told."
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"One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population."
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"ABBA: The Movie; I got a lot of grief for working on that."
Grief
"A film that is bleached tends to have a more realistic quality."
Quality
"I love mixing amateurs and professionals."
Love
"My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot."
Sacrifice
"I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances."
Acting
"I love involving actors at all levels - and they have to know that I want to hear their contributions, with dialogue, with story suggestions, with script changes, whatever."
Love
"My father would tell anyone who would listen that this dentist thing he was doing was not his passion; cinematography was."
Family
"I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project."
Passion
"But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from."
Movies
"Cinema has become a global economy, totally international."
Cinema
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