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" You look at how many years you have left, and you start to think: 'How many more films do I have in me?' "

Alexander Payne

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" If you were falling in love and you could go back in time and relive a day and see the banal things you did that you'd forgotten about, you'd weep, looking at that day. "

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" Jesuits encourage an intellectual rigor in a way that I like. "

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" Well, that's what life is - this collection of extraordinarily ordinary moments. We just need to pay attention to them all. Wake up and pay attention to how beautiful it all is. "

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