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I think that if you can convey a kind of a complexity, a mystery, a truth in stillness, that, to me, is really worth striving for, and I totally agree with Michael Fassbender in that less is more. If it's going on inside you, the camera will find it.

~Gabriel Byrne

Topics: Agree Camera Complexity Convey Find Going Inside Kind Less Less Is More Me Michael More Mystery Really Stillness Striving Think Totally Truth Will Worth You I Think

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Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting it into pamphlets. We're doing a publicity show. We're becoming symbols.

~Gael Garcia Bernal

Topics: Aspect Becoming Complexity Constructed Day-To-Day Democracy Doing Electoral Every Human Process Publicity Putting Show Single Symbols

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Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else. Change is scary for everyone, as is complexity, contradiction, and an uncertain future.

~Gary Ross

Topics: Around Change Complexity Contradiction Each Else Era Everyone False Fence Future Generation Generations My Generation Nostalgia Other Own Picket Put Really Scary Something Something Else Uncertain Up Will

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You can drain the life and nuances and complexity out of things by homogenizing them to make everything harmoniously dull, flat, conflict-free, strife-free.

~Gary Ross

Topics: Complexity Drain Dull Everything Flat Life Make Nuances Out Them Things You

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It's a big deal to reveal your friend's deepest truth, your friend's deepest secret. And for all of us, when we do these big things, there's a complexity of motivation that comes behind that decision.

~Gene Luen Yang

Topics: Behind Big Big Deal Big Things Complexity Deal Decision Deepest Friend Motivation Reveal Secret Things Truth Us Your

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We academics - I am an academic - we love complexity. You can write papers about complexity, and the nice thing about complexity is it's fundamentally intractable in many ways, so you're not responsible for outcomes.

~George M. Whitesides

Topics: About Academic Academics Am Complexity Fundamentally Love Many Nice Nice Thing Outcomes Papers Responsible Thing Ways Write You I Am

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Many retailers have complained bitterly to me about the complexity of the Carbon Reduction Commitment. It's not a commitment; it's a tax.

~George Osborne

Topics: About Carbon Commitment Complexity Many Me Reduction Tax

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Liberal democracies like ours seem, for the most part, to have learned how to avoid meticulously planned mass-casualty plots with the complexity and scale of 9/11. But they don't know how to keep their citizens safe at night clubs and concerts, in supermarkets, on beachfront promenades, from truck drivers.

~George Packer

Topics: Avoid Citizens Clubs Complexity Concerts Democracy Drivers How Keep Know Learned Liberal Like Most Night Ours Part Planned Plots Safe Scale Seem Truck

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I'm often forced to draw a lot of tiny panels due to the limited number of pages and the complexity of the story.

~George Perez

Topics: Complexity Draw Due Forced Limited Lot Number Often Pages Story Tiny

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