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"Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also."
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"The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious."

"To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question."

"It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives."

"Sometimes you could tell what it was about - it was interesting - and sometimes it was quite obvious that someone had lost it and it was on an endless loop."

"It'll become obvious that we've really been working against ourselves."

"If we win, someone else loses. But if someone else loses, we lose. Which is a point we're not getting. The new spirituality will make this just painfully obvious."

"The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer."
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"My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?"


"France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper."


"Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means nothing. If you see him coming through a window - that is at once interesting."
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