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It’s so hard to communicate because there are so many moving parts. There’s presentation and there’s interpretation and they’re so dependent on each other it makes things very difficult.

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Garth Stein
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: December 6
Author
Film Producer
Novelist
Writer
LA
California
Things
Dependent
Communicate
Parts
Moving
Difficult
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Many
Presentation
Hard
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I suddenly realized. The zebra. It is not something outside of us. The zebra is something inside of us. Our fears. Our own self-destructive nature. The zebra is the worst part of us when we are face-to-face with our worst times. The demon is us!
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You should shine with all of your light all the time.
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This is a rule of racing: No race has ever been won in the first corner many have been lost there.
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We too, must shatter the mirrors. We must look in to ourselves and root out the distortions until that thing which we know in our hearts is perfect and true, stands before us.
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That which we manifest is before us we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves.
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I think the one that's going to be the hardest to make into a film is the one that's probably going to be made into a film, which is 'The Art of Racing in the Rain.' I mean, it's narrated by a dog. How do you do that? But hopefully we'll get to see.
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That which you manifest is before you. The visible becomes inevitable. Your car goes where your eyes go.
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In Seattle we live among the trees and the waterways, and we feel we are rocked gently in the cradle of life. Our winters are not cold and our summers are not hot and we congratulate ourselves for choosing such a spectacular place to rest our heads.
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And I wonder: Have I squandered my dogness? Have I forsaken my nature for my desires? Have I made a mistake by anticipating my future and shunning my present?
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So what if man's body evolved from the monkeys? Whether he came from monkeys or fish is unimportant. The important idea is that when the body became human enough, the first human soul slipped into it.
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Very gently. Like there are eggshells on your pedals, and you don’t want to break them. That’s how you drive in the rain.
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It makes one realize that the physicality if our world is a boundary to us only if our will is weak a true champion can accomplish things that a normal person would think impossible.
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We are the creators of our own destiny.
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[M]emory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present.
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Did he understand, as those interminable minutes ticked by, that being alone is not the same as being lonely? That being alone is a neutral state… something that exists only in the mind, not in the world, and, like a virus, is unable to survive without a willing host?
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Anyone who has a dog knows that they have some very deep thoughts, that they have moods and emotions, they get their feelings hurt. It's not a far reach to give them opinions and values and long-term desires.
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In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller.
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Those monkey-thumbs were meant for dogs. Give me my thumbs, you fu**ing monkeys!
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He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave.
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But what is worse, smelling the roast and not feasting, or not smelling the roast at all?
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