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"Time management is a big part of the director's job."

"To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time."

"The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains."

"The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second."

"Thirteen days. Almost two weeks. And, just five days in, she had learned a fundamental truth about time: Like the accordion on which sometimes played old Pashto songs were played, time stretched and contracted depending on his absence or presence."
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"I like this life. I like it when it's hard, and I like it better when it's not, but I know you don't get the sweet part without the bitter."


"Music can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to sleep, whereas a lullaby is intended to put a child to sleep in a sweet way."


"To my great surprise and pleasure, I have had dinner with most of the people living with whom I would like to have dinner."


"My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility."


"Once women are not excluded, I don't think any of us will give a damn what pronouns are used. That wasn't the point."


"To come to a concert and hear a lot of songs from a female perspective should not make men say, 'Oh well, that's for women'."
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