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• I always thought that the movie had to be really raw, very edgy, that everything had to be super grounded and feel very real. If this was going to be a story about kids discovering time travel and building a time machine that we needed to believe that they really did it .

  Dean Israelite

  Real, Believe, Kids

  Source: collider.com

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• There is only one problem on which all my existence, my peace, my happiness depend: to discover myself in discovering God. If I find Him I will find myself and if I find my true self I will find Him.

  Thomas Merton

  Self, Problem, Existence

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.36, New Directions Publishing

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• My old friend looked at me with a new respect. He was discovering in me a capacity for hypocrisy that he had never credited me with before.

  A. J. Liebling

  Hypocrisy, Old Friends, Capacity

  A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.39, Macmillan

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• Architecture is not about designing somehting from a free, fanciful idea. It is about discovering and establishing one's own principle, some kind of regularity - finding an individual formula to apply to one's buildings.

  Shigeru Ban

  Ideas, Design, Principles

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• Unlike men, women got less sentimental as we aged, I was discovering.

  Melanie Benjamin

  Men, Sentimental, Men Women

  Melanie Benjamin (2013). “The Aviator's Wife: A Novel”, p.391, Delacorte Press

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• Poetry is difficult, I mean interesting poetry, not confessional babble or emotive propaganda. Reading a new poet is discovering an entire world, what Stevens called a 'mundo' and it takes a lot of time to orientate oneself in such a world. What we have to learn to do then, as teachers and militants of a poetic insurgency, is to encourage people to learn to love the difficulty of poetry. I simply do not understand much of the poetry that I love.

  Simon Critchley

  Teacher, Reading, Mean

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• The point is to unify the opposites, both positive and negative, by discovering a ground which transcends and encompasses both.

  Ken Wilber

  Opposites, Negative

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• Learning is discovering that somethinkg is possible.

  Frederick Salomon Perls

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• It's a very organic kind of way that people are discovering it, by word of mouth, which I always think is the best way for things to grow. In terms of the affect it's been having on me, I don't even notice that. It's lovely to be able to talk about a piece of work that you're very proud of, that I think's a complex piece of work and not superficial and has depth to it.

  Cillian Murphy

  Thinking, People, Lovely

  "The Shy Man’s Revenge". Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 17, 2014.

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• History is written by the winners. The books say the Indians were bad guys and the whites just needed a little land. It's like, Excuse me, let me take your car. I'm discovering it. I'm putting my flag on your windshield.

  Mario Van Peebles

  Book, Land, Car

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• I remember Tallulah (Bankhead) telling of going into a public ladies' room and discovering there was no toilet tissue. She looked underneath the booth and said to the lady in the next stall, 'I beg your pardon, do you happen to have any toilet tissue in there?' The lady said no. So Tallulah said, 'Well, then, dahling, do you have two fives for a ten?'

  Ethel Merman

  Two, Rooms, Next

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• Branding is nothing but knowing who you are and what you do that makes you stand out from everyone else, then communicating that through your marketing efforts. Branding is discovering your uniqueness and learning to exploit it.

  Larry Winget

  Knowing Who You Are, Effort, Marketing

  Larry Winget (2007). “It's Called Work for a Reason!: Your Success is Your Own Damn Fault”, p.117, Penguin

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• One of the exhilarating parts of falling in love is discovering new things about one another, and seeing the world from a different point of view.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Falling In Love, Love Is, Views

  Source: www.ftd.com

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• Once upon a time there was a girl who discovered that if she played a certain tune on a jade flute, she could summon up jade gnomes, a peculiar, harmless, but rather creepy looking spirit of the underground. The fact is that many of us have talents like this, but generally never discover them due to lack of opportunity, since one can go one's entire life without playing a jade flute, or discovering that one can speak the language of ground sloths, or turning fruitcake into solid tungsten by singing Sinatra tunes to it under a quarter moon.

  Ursula Vernon

  Girl, Moon, Opportunity

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• Just supposing for the sake of the argument that there is a being of such a kind as that He may with any propriety be called "God", it does seem antecedently very improbable that weak and limited creatures of a day, such as we are, should discover Him by our own efforts.... who could be discovered in that way would hardly be worth discovering. I think we ought to stick to that principle rather firmly. I think we ought to be rather sure that we cannot know God unless God has been pleased to reveal Himself to us.

  John Gresham Machen

  Thinking, Effort, May

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• I think, in the initial process of discovering a character and the analytical process - and this is what I did take from Buddhism - initially I think there has to be an analytical, intellectual approach. And that has to be abandoned by the time you're playing the game.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Character, Buddhism, Thinking

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: "Way Beyond His Years as a Human"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• The revolution is here. It's established that Netflix is a place where you can get premium content. It's a whole new world. It's very interesting. We'll be discovering it together. It's going to be interesting because they don't have a lot to compare it to.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Interesting, Together, Revolution

  Source: collider.com

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• I started my YouTube channel when I was 13. At the time, I was being bullied by a few people who I used to be very close to. I felt very alone and unmotivated. After discovering the beauty community, I decided it would be a great way to express myself and use it as an outlet to be who I am.

  Bethany Mota

  Who I Am, People, Community

  "True Life: I'm A YouTube Star". Interview with Kristin Tice Studeman, www.elle.com. March 13, 2014.

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• I am discovering that I can live far better without cynicism than I can without trust.

  Steve Goodier

  Cynicism, Without Trust, I Can

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• What I try to do is write from the inside out. I really try to jump into the world of the film and the characters, try to imagine myself in that world rather than imagining it as a film I'm watching onscreen. Sometimes, that means I'm discovering things the way the audience will, with character and story.

  Christopher Nolan

  Writing, Character, Mean

  Source: deadline.com

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• I think the most important thing for me is a challenge. I'm not happy, creatively, unless I'm faced with a challenge. So, overcoming those challenges and really discovering characters that aren't like me helps me grow, as a person and as an artist.

  Ksenia Solo

  Character, Artist, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm discovering my sexual side, and exploring relationships. You know, sensual stuff. And I'm discovering a lot of sides of myself, stuff I've buried. So the music is also therapeutic, to come to terms with things. And I feel now like my head is in the right space.

  Alicia Keys

  Space, Sensual, Stuff

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• People think of art and science as being fundamentally opposed to each other, because art is about celebrating individual human creativity, and science is about discovering general principles, not about individual people. But in fact, the two have a lot in common, and the creative spirit is similar in both.

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Art, Creativity, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As an activist, you do find yourself directed more toward public action. But I've always tried to use stories from my own life in my writing for instance. It has always been clear to me that the stories of each other's lives are our best textbooks. Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences. So, if we've shared many experiences, then it probably has something to do with power or politics, and if we unify and act together, then we can make a change.

  Gloria Steinem

  Writing, Justice, People

  Interview with Maria Shriver, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 11, 2011.

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• When I did TV, I only did little guest parts, and it hasn't been that long. There is a kind of pressure in this job that comes from your work every day being there forever. But this is all part of the brand-new world that I'm discovering.

  Emma Stone

  Jobs, Long, Forever

  Interview with Cameron Crowe, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 19, 2012.

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