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I think it's always interesting to make sensational stories where, if these people don't make the right choice, it actually puts marks not just on their souls but also their bodies. That means that you can visualize existential questions.

~Daniel Espinosa

Topics: Actually Also Always Bodies Choice Existential Interesting Just Make Marks Means People Puts Questions Right Right Choice Sensational Souls Stories Think Visualize Where You I Think

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For me, empathy is an existential question - it's about the survival of the human race. That is, it's imperative for us to overcome the challenges we face.

~Daniel Lubetzky

Topics: About Challenges Empathy Existential Face Human Human Race Imperative Me Overcome Question Race Survival Us

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For every Book of Job, there's a Book of Leviticus, featuring some of the most boring prose ever written. But if you were stranded on a desert island, what book would better reward long study? And has there ever been a more beautiful distillation of existential philosophy than the Book of Ecclesiastes?

~David Benioff

Topics: Beautiful Been Better Book Boring Desert Desert Island Ever Every Existential Island Job Long More Most Philosophy Prose Reward Some Stranded Study Than Were Would Written You

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Time and time again, our species has escaped existential threats by reinventing ourselves, finding new skills not coded in our genes to survive new challenges not previously encountered.

~David Grinspoon

Topics: Again Challenges Encountered Escaped Existential Finding Genes New New Challenges New Skills Our Ourselves Reinventing Skills Species Survive Threats Time Time And Time To Survive

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The story of our species is one of overcoming existential risk through new forms of cooperation and innovation.

~David Grinspoon

Topics: Cooperation Existential Forms Innovation New New Forms Our Overcoming Risk Species Story Through

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Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships.

~David Ives

Topics: About Always Existential Family Intense Intense Love Love Plays Relationships Whether

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'Atomic Blonde' is about the characters' bigger existential crisis and their world. It's not so much the conceit of the spy game; it's more that being a spy sucks. But we're going to make it fun to watch.

~David Leitch

Topics: About Atomic Being Bigger Blonde Characters Conceit Crisis Existential Fun Game Going Make More Much Spy Sucks Watch World

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With the transcendent or supernatural, they help us contextualize our own lives while we are here on this earth. On a narrative level, as a storyteller, they are a wonderful tool and technique by which to explore those hopes, those fears, those existential dilemmas that we all face from time to time.

~David Lowery

Topics: Dilemmas Earth Existential Explore Face Fears From Time To Time Help Here Hopes Level Lives Narrative Our Own Storyteller Supernatural Technique Those Time Tool Transcendent Us Which While Wonderful

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The essential gesture of the contemporary novel is to get people to turn the page, to entertain them, and I hate that. I want a novel where the gesture is towards existential investigation on every page. That, to me, is thrilling.

~David Shields

Topics: Contemporary Entertain Essential Every Existential Gesture Get Hate Investigation Me Novel Page People Them Thrilling Towards Turn Want Where

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I think that every human - and this is something, you know, like, your years from 14 to, like, 23 are kind of, like, super, super existential, and you're figuring out life.

~Dove Cameron

Topics: Every Existential Figuring Human Kind Know Life Like Out Something Super Think Years You Your I Think

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