But one of the amazing things about documentary is that you can remake it every time you make one. There is no rule about how a documentary film has to be made. ~Errol Morris
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In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably. ~George MacDonald
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Dig the well before you are thirsty. ~Chinese Proverb
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Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox. ~Anna Howard Shaw
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Translation is not a matter of words only, it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. ~Anthony Burgess
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We need better neighbors, neighbors that care about the schools in their neighborhood, whether they have kids in them or not, because they know that the health and vitality of that neighborhood depends on it. ~Thomas Friedman
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it. ~East African Proverb
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I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface ~Christian Slater
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The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists. ~Japanese Proverb
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The success of the dinner depends as much upon the company as the cook. Discordant elements, people invited alphabetically, or to pay off debts, are fatal. ~Ward McAllister
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Morning without you is a dwindled dawn. ~Emily Dickinson
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Waylon Jennings and I had a lot of fun recording together. ~Willie Nelson
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Once I began doing stand-up, I didn't get a kick out of the applause or being the centre of attention; but I did get a kick out of the jigsaw puzzle aspect of it, searching for the right bit, adding another few pieces each night until the bigger picture appears. That's the appeal: the challenge of it. ~Stephen Merchant
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man. ~Tertullian
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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes Valmore
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Before you begin on the journey of revenge, dig two graves. ~Proverb
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We are fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. ~Japanses Proverb
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Death pays all debts. ~English Proverb
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The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself. ~Jeffrey Kluger
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There is nothing Dutch about my architecture. ~Rem Koolhaas
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If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong. ~Ben Stein
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Invest less at the end of the month. Brokers tend to push stocks at the end of the month in an effort to match or surpass their previous month's sales. ~Nancy Dunnan
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America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference. ~Sylvia Earle
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He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors. ~Chinese Proverb
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If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of life, as we now understand it, about the importance of microbes. I think he would just beam with joy that many of the thoughts and the glimpses of the majesty of life on Earth that he had during his life, now magnified many times over. ~Sylvia Earle
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