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Hyperbole is something Id better avoid.
Terry Gilliam
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Terry Gilliam
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: November 22
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Minneapolis
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Terrence Vance Gilliam
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Fantasy isn't just a jolly escape: It's an escape, but into something far more extreme than reality, or normality. It's where things are more beautiful and more wondrous and more terrifying. You move into a world of conflicting extremes.
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I never define depression, clinical or otherwise. It's the basis of most life, it seems to me, in the modern world. We're all depressed.
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I've given up asking questions. l merely float on a tsunami of acceptance of anything life throws at me ... and marvel stupidly.
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Because I dislike being quoted I lie almost constantly when talking about my work.
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