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I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for the most part, we manage not to see it. That’s why I love coffee shops and public places – I mean, they’re all out there.

David Lynch

Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business – everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen your intuition, which they say is emotion and intellect joining together, then a knowingness occurs.
DAVID LYNCH

Emotion Intellectual Intuition Key Night Paint Togetherness
I like making films because I like to go into another world. I like to get lost into another world.
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Lost Movie Myself World
I don’t like the word ironic. I like the word absurdity, and I don’t really understand the word ‘irony’ too much. The irony comes when you try to verbalize the absurd. When irony happens without words, it’s much more exalted.
DAVID LYNCH

Absurd Try Verbal Word Yourself
The thing about meditation is: you become more and more you.
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Be Yourself Meditation
The artist does not have to suffer to show suffering.
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Artist Show Suffering
All my movies are about strange worlds that you can’t go into unless you build them and film them. That’s what’s so important about film to me. I just like going into strange worlds.
DAVID LYNCH

Build Important Movie Myself Strange World
Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.
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Play Sound Visual
Secrets and mysteries provide a beautiful corridor where you can float out. The corridor expands and many, many wonderful things can happen, I love the process of going into mystery.
DAVID LYNCH

Beautiful Expand Love Myself Mystery Secret
Absurdity is what I like most in life.
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Absurd Life Myself
Meditation is not a selfish thing. Even though you’re diving in and experiencing the Self, you’re not closing yourself off from the world. You’re strengthening yourself, so that you can be more effective when you go back into the world.
DAVID LYNCH

Dive Experience Meditation Selfish Strength World
This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.
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Heart Top Wild World
I love seeing people come out of darkness.
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Darkness Love Myself People
I started Transcendental Meditation in 1973 and have not missed a single meditation ever since. Twice a day, every day. It has given me effortless access to unlimited reserves of energy, creativity and happiness deep within.
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I like darkness and confusion and absurdity, but I like to know that there could be a little door that you could go out into a safe life area of happiness.
DAVID LYNCH

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I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened.
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Myself Necessary Remember Way
When you have something that brings a real emotion, that’s the power of cinema.
DAVID LYNCH

Emotion Power Reality Yourself

I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for the most part, we manage not to see it. That’s why I love coffee shops and public places – I mean, they’re all out there.

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I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for the most part, we manage not to see it. That’s why I love coffee shops and public places – I mean, they’re all out there.

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