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• There’s a bizarre insistence on how a story should be. ‘The protagonist must be sympathetic!’ they say. Whatever that means. I never engage in that discussion. I never use that word, ‘sympathetic.’ I just know ‘interesting.’

  Alexander Payne

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• Shakespeare and Rembrandt have in common the faculty of quickening speculation and compelling the minds of men to combat and discussion.

  William Ernest Henley

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• I’d rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it.

  Rafael Nadal

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• I met a bunch of comic-book writers at the Metropolis convention and there was such an interesting discussion about the story of ‘Supergirl’ and trying to get it right. It can be a challenge, because you don’t want it to be the same as the Superman story.

  Helen Slater

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• I love having that creative discussion where, at the end of the day, you both feel better for having done it. Maybe it’s a typically Jewish thing, where you sort of go at each other.

  Liev Schreiber

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• If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.

  Albert Einstein

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• I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy.

  Stephen King

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• There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor.

  Gerrit Smith

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• Canadians still spend so much time discussing what it means to be Canadian.

  Dave Foley

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• I think it will bring back discussion about Columbine. When Columbine happened it was the topic of the week, and we shouldn’t have just moved on to something else. Whether people like the film or not, it’s going to make them think about what happened.

  John Robinson

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• I know why we can’t have a frank discussion with our policymakers – if you’re in the government or in law enforcement you cannot acknowledge that drugs are anything but inherently evil and morally wrong.

  Steven Soderbergh

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• And yet I would not freely exchange my science for those of my fellow laureates. They are forever confined in their professional discussions to the small numbers of their fellow scientists.

  George Stigler

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• But I’ll tell you something: We had a big family discussion about it recently, my two sisters and I, and I pointed out that we all have the same genes as our mother and we’re all susceptible to becoming alcoholics.

  Payne Stewart

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• I am in discussions with a label. We are talking about doing something.

  Freddie Hubbard

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• I’m betting that in two years I’ll be talking to you about a film that I shot on an iPhone. It’s absolutely coming, I have no doubt in my mind.

  Edward Burns

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  Tags in Self, Discussion, Film

• So, when the discussion about not using the term feminist came up at a conference workshop, I couldn’t believe it. The more I listened, the more I felt the need to express my passion about my identity as a feminist.

  Betty Buckley

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• Though race-related issues continue to occupy a significant portion of our political discussion, and though there remain many unresolved racial issues in this nation, we, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about things racial.

  Eric Himpton Holder Jr.

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• And I hope very much that the ALP will become increasingly engaged in the international discussions that are taking place amongst centre-left parties generally.

  Patricia Hewitt

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• I think there’s nothing better in the world than a spirited discussion about the Bible and Jesus and God and the Catholic faith, or the Jewish faith, or the Muslim faith – any religion.

  Elizabeth Vargas

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• There may be something good in silence. It’s a brand new thing. You can hear the funniest little discussions, if you keep turning the volume down. Shut yourself up, and listen out loud.

  Wes Borland

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