"I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires."

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"I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires."

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"The apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest."

"The eye of a man is never satisfied with seeing."

"If you can desire it, you can behold it."

"When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want."

"As long as there is greed (desire) for even a single situation, one will have to come back into the world and wandering will continue until then."

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"The thrill I got discovering Buster Keaton when I was growing up was so exciting. He was one of the greats."

"I can't tell you how scary it can be walking onto a movie and suddenly joining this family, it's like going to somebody else's Christmas dinner, everyone knows everyone, and you're there and you're not quite sure what you're supposed to be doing."

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"The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting."