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" All of those years, I felt like 'Heaven's Gate' was a beautiful, fantastically colored balloon tied to a string fastened to my wrist, so the balloon could never fly. "

Michael Cimino

Beautiful

Balloon

Never

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Believe

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Walk

Fate

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Dig

Past

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Guy

Want

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