And if you can come through that and still have some connection to your joy you felt when … - David O. Russell

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You want calamities? What about the Ice Age? God made this world, but didn't complete it.

David O. Russell

And if you can come through that and still have some connection to your joy you felt when you were a child that's a very mature kind of a joy that I find inspiring. And Jennifer Lowrence has all that in her, and I've watched her have to go through it even in the last few years.

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