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"That radio was very important for me. It meant I always knew what was going on in the world."
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"So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground."

"And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world."

"Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world."

"The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?"

"I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?"

"In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich."

"The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world."

"Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world."

"Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world."
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"Looking in the mirror to check if my tie is straight is a waste of my time. I only look in the mirror once a day, and that's in the morning when I shave."

"Security is like virginity: you're either a virgin or you're not. You either have security or you don't."

"Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another."

"In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety. The present was always temporary."
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