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The more unknowable the mystery, the more beautiful it is.

David Lynch

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
It’s so freeing, it’s beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there’s nowhere to go but up.
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Beautiful Failure Freedom Greatness Journey Path Way
What do you fear, most of all? The possibility that love may not be enough.
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Deep Enough Fear Love Philosophy Possible Yourself
Film noir has a mood that everyone can feel. It’s people in trouble, at night, with a little bit of wind and the right kind of music. It’s a beautiful thing.
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Beautiful Feeling Kind Music Night People Right Trouble
We’re all like detectives. We want to figure things out. Life, you know, we want to figure out life, and we want to figure out what’s going on, so it’s beautiful. It’s beautiful that people are thinking.
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Beautiful Detective Life People Thinking Yourself
Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas. But wood can translate ideas, too. You have wood and then you get a chair. Some ideas are for different things.
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Different Ideas Medium Movie Translation Yourself
Absurdity is what I like most in life.
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Absurd Life Myself
The day you catch an idea you fall in love with, even a small one, is a beautiful day.
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Beautiful Catch Ideas Love Small
A film is its own thing and in an ideal world I think a film should be discovered knowing nothing and nothing should be added to it and nothing should be subtracted from it.
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Add Discover Ideal Movie World
We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.
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Adult Experience Imagination Thinking Understand
Being in darkness and confusion is interesting to me. But behind it you can rise out of that and see things the way the really are.
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Confusion Darkness Interest Myself Way
Don’t make a film if it can’t be the film you want to make. It’s a joke, and a sick joke, and it’ll kill you.
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Creation Kill Movie Yourself
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.
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Emotion Intellectual Intuition Key Night Paint Togetherness
There is an ocean of creativity within every human being.
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Creativity Human Ocean
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.
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Absurd Try Verbal Word Yourself
There is an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness inside each one of us.
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Ocean Oneself Purity Vibrant
If you keep your eye on the doughnut and do your work, that’s all you can control. You can’t control any of what’s out there, outside yourself.
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Desire Eyes Temptation Work Yourself
This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.
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Heart Top Wild World
Inside, we are ageless and when we talk to ourselves, it’s the same age of the person we were talking to when we were little. It’s the body that is changing around that ageless center.
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Age Body Change Person Talk
I think that ideas exist outside of ourselves. I think somewhere, we’re all connected off in some very abstract land. But somewhere between there and here ideas exist.
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Connection Existence Ideas Myself Thinking
The cinema is really built for the big screen and big sound, so that a person can go into another world and have an experience.
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Build Experience Movie Sound
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 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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Absurd Coffee Myself People Place Point Weird World
My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.
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Cow Myself Perspective Sight
We want to generate the electricity of peace through music, and it’s a thrill to know that the super-creative, enthusiastic musicians of our world are with us to achieve this goal.
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Achievement Creativity Electricity Goal Music Peace Thrill
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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Creativity Deep Effort Energy Happiness Meditation Myself Start Transcendence
Negativity is the enemy of creativity.
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Creativity Enemy Negative

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