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" Heroes have always served as a reflection of their times, a template of who we are and what we want to be. "

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" It's funny: I don't know if she babysat, but I spent time with Judy Blume when I was little. "

" You think of the rainforest as this incredibly abundant place of fauna and animals and flora. This great, rich wilderness. And yet it is such a biological battlefield in which everything is competing. "

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