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• No one knows how this world came into being. It is a creation of consciousness itself. It's extraordinary, a mystery.

  Jack Kornfield

  World, Mystery, Consciousness

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• Walter [Hill] basically brought me into that ["Wild Bill Hickok"], and it was one of the great experiences. It was extraordinary stuff. He wrote this kind of American Shakespeare. But I played my part for four episodes, and the rest is history!

  Keith Carradine

  Four, Bills, Stuff

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I thought that if I were going into old age I would want to do what [Giuseppe] Verdi did, which is to write extraordinary things, and to really find myself.

  Maurice Sendak

  Writing, Age, Want

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• I had to imagine myself into certain aspects of [Julian Assange] character for our version of events. That involved extrapolating based on clues in his biography, his public persona, photographs, and other accounts of him by people who encountered him during that extraordinary period from 2007 to 2010 that we charted in the film [The Fifth Estate]. So, it involved a lot of research but, sadly, no contact with the man himself.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Character, Men, People

  'The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug' Interview with Kam Williams, pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• Even though I was 34 or 35 or something. I was like, “People can do that? Women can actually just say what they think?” It was an extraordinary experience to do that movie with her because every day was a lesson in how to just be yourself.

  Geena Davis

  Being Yourself, Thinking, People

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• Hillary Clinton possesses an extraordinary intelligence and a remarkable work ethic. I am proud that she will be our next secretary of state.

  Barack Obama

  Work Ethic, Proud, Next

  Source: www.npr.org

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• This movie [ Buried] is strange, because it's such an extraordinary situation, both as a character and as an actor. Both of us are going through an extraordinary situation at the same time, and it was odd. It was weird not having a co-star to cut away to for the most part. It just forces you to never have a deficit in the performance.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Stars, Character, Cutting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• People get tired of talking about American exceptionalism, but I think this is an extraordinary thing about the United States, that we are a nation of immigrants, first of all, that is built upon a pluralistic society of native people that were here to begin with. The issue of diversity is really with us from the beginning.

  Diana L. Eck

  Tired, Thinking, Talking

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I have called President Obama, and President Obama called me on various issues. This is part of our regular contacts, there is nothing unusual or extraordinary about it.

  Vladimir Putin

  Issues, President, Unusual

  "Interview to American TV channel CBS and PBS". Interview with Charlie Rose, en.kremlin.ru. September 29, 2015.

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• The first thing to realize about physics ... is its extraordinary indirectness.... For physics is not about the real world, it is about "abstractions" from the real world, and this is what makes it so scientific.... Theoretical physics runs merrily along with these unreal abstractions, but its conclusions are checked, at every possible point, by experiments.

  Anthony Standen

  Running, Real, Science

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• It's not the big things that add up in the end; it's the hundreds, thousands, or millions of little things that separate the ordinary from the extraordinary.

  Darren Hardy

  Ordinary, Add, Littles

  Darren Hardy (2011). “The Compound Effect”, p.42, Hachette UK

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• When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds.

  Patanjali

  Purpose, Inspired, Break

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• It's no great achievement to go along with the crowd. Be the unusual guy, the extraordinary guy.

  Darren Hardy

  Achievement, Guy, Crowds

  Darren Hardy (2011). “The Compound Effect”, p.20, Hachette UK

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• The secret is to get a good cinematographer and a very good assistant director. If you get those and stay out of their way, and have good actresses, the script doesn't even have to be that extraordinary.

  Lester Persky

  Secret, Way, Scripts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I believe still today what I have always believed: that God is good, that the world He made is extraordinary, and that His comfort is like nothing else on earth.

  Shauna Niequist

  Believe, Comfort, World

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• Economic research demonstrates that tax dollars spent in early childhood development provide extraordinary return on investment-16% for high quality programs

  Robert Greenwald

  Childhood, Quality, Dollars

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• It takes an extraordinary amount of attention to manifest any ambition. But life intervenes - distractions and obligations pull us away from the ambition we originally had.

  Brendon Burchard

  Ambition, Attention, Distraction

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• Through this experience [of makimg movies], I recognized what an extraordinary set of personality traits it takes to be able to succeed in that world, and I was really drawn to the character work we could build with actors as a result.

  Meera Menon

  Character, Personality, Actors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Chocolate and candy. That's what we brought in to our friends. We worked in East Berlin with other artists who were smuggled out to come work in the Western Bloc. It was extraordinary because people in East Berlin just wanted to know what was happening. Music. Fashion. The news. All of the things we get every day.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Fashion, Artist, East Berlin

  "Whoopi Goldberg Is the Fashion Week Muse We Need". Interview with Faran Krentcil, www.elle.com. September 12, 2016.

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• [Edward Snowden and his team] they're great characters. They're fascinating people. They were in an extraordinary situation.

  Zachary Quinto

  Team, Character, People

  Source: screenrant.com

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• I never heard my mom say, "Not now, I'm busy." But I did have extraordinary experiences that I'm very aware were extraordinary. I mean, I traveled Europe before I was 12 years old, had been to the White House numerous times. Andy Warhol photographed me; Michael Jackson called our house.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Mom, Mean, Years

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• When we use this word fun, it sort of bangs up the ordinary and the extraordinary altogether.

  Ian Bogost

  Fun, Bangs, Ordinary

  Source: app.longform.org

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• First of all, Sam Fuller left a group of extraordinary movies that are unique, that are "Fuller-esque," as one might say, which makes them stand apart from any other director's films.

  Curtis Hanson

  Unique, Directors, Groups

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The US is also unusual in the enormous scale of religious fundamentalism. The impact on understanding of the world is extraordinary. In national polls almost half of those surveyed have reported that they believe that God created humans in their present form 10,000 years ago (or less) and that man shares no common ancestor with the ape. There are similar beliefs about the Second Coming.

  Noam Chomsky

  Religious, Believe, Men

  "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, www.truth-out.org. September 17, 2016.

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• When I was a very young student I loved and admired the work of Sam Beckett, who is famously pessimistic, and whose writing is an extraordinary examination of emptiness. I wanted to be like Beckett. I don't have the same attitude toward the world, I'm naturally optimistic, and so of course I could never be like Beckett. You can't force yourself to become like someone you admire.

  Michael Craig-Martin

  Attitude, Optimistic, Writing

  Source: www.artzip.org

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