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I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened.

David Lynch

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.
DAVID LYNCH

Different Ideas Medium Movie Translation Yourself
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

Absurd Confusion Darkness Happiness Safety Weird
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
I just like going into strange worlds.
DAVID LYNCH

Myself Strange World
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.
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Dive Experience Meditation Selfish Strength World
Tenderness can be just as abstract as insanity.
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Abstract Art Sanity
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
Negativity is the enemy of creativity.
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Creativity Enemy Negative
I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened.
DAVID LYNCH

Myself Necessary Remember Way
We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.
DAVID LYNCH

Adult Experience Imagination Thinking Understand
The big treasury is an ocean of infinite creativity. It’s a creativity that creates everything that is a thing – it’s mighty powerful creativity.
DAVID LYNCH

Creativity Ocean Powerful
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
My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.
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Cow Myself Perspective Sight
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
The only thing that disturbs me is that many psychopaths say they had a very happy childhood.
DAVID LYNCH

Childhood Disturb Happiness
The artist does not have to suffer to show suffering.
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Artist Show Suffering

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