Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence. - Henrik Ibsen

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While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

Henrik Ibsen

Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.

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Writing has. . . been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.

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Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man

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To live is to war with trolls.

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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

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Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing

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I was 18 when I started. I was hanging out with some friends and they asked if I had tried stand-up before. I hadn't, but I thought: 'What the hell?' So I went to an open mic night, and I liked it.

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Dorothea Lange

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

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Mark Twain

I think that the reason why we Americans seem to be so addicted to trying to get rich suddenly is merely because the opportunity to make promising efforts in that direction has offered itself to us with a frequency out of all proportion to the European experience.

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I think sometimes Europe may take for granted the extraordinary progress that's been made over the last 40, 50 years. I recognize that sometimes there is great frustration that arises out of the euro zone or out of the EU.

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When you are a filmmaker, you need to be rooted, because committing yourself to producing or directing a film is a good three-year process.

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