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I think it's a very healthy thing to learn from what's happened in the past. But only if you look at what happened and think, 'How could I have dealt with that differently?' Then let it go.
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We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.
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History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
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If you're actually talking to someone who's been through a disastrous number of years, that only means one thing: They survived it.
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I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to.
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Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF.
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Stories come from other shows at other studios where only 2,000 rounds were actually used and the money for the other 3,000 went right into the studio pockets. Corners were cut and that production suffered. Knock wood, that hasn't happened to us.
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Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature.
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I like historical pieces. History was my favorite subject in school, it was the only subject I excelled in. I love the idea of history and the idea that we may have the opportunity to learn from our past mistakes.
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Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs.


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If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.
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I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.
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We can't keep thinking in a limited way about what cinema is. We still don't know what cinema is. Maybe cinema could only really apply to the past or the first 100 years, when people actually went to a theater to see a film, you see?
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I sat down and wrote what I remembered about being nine, and that eventually became 'Amelia's Notebook.'
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