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We each need to find our own inspiration. Sometimes it is not easy.

Hayao Miyazaki

I think we should stop using nuclear power plants because it’s an old system that we can’t control.
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Control Nuclear Old Power Stop System Use
We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.
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Age Cheap Live Movie Right
I think that’s exactly why the fantasy worlds of cartoon movies so strongly represent our hopes and yearnings. They illustrate a world of lost possibilities for us.
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Cartoon Fantasy Hope Lost Movie Possiblity Represent World
Those are shrines. Some people believe spirits live in them.
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Believe Live People Spirit
I do believe in the power of story. I believe that stories have an important role to play in the formation of human beings, that they can stimulate, amaze and inspire their listeners.
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Believe Formation Human Important Play Power Role Story
Problems begin the moment we’re born. We’re born with infinite possibilities, only to give up on one after another. To choose one thing means to give up another. That’s inevitable. But what can you do? That’s what it is to live.
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Birthday Give Up Inevitable Infinite Moments Possiblity Problem
I’d rather be a pig than a fascist.
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Fascist One Liner Pig
When I say ‘hero’, do not picture someone with strength to fight and conquer evil – because evil is not something that can ever be conquered or defeated. Evil is natural. It is innate in all humans.
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Conquer Defeat Evil Fight Hero Human Natural Picture Strength
Our lives are like the wind or like sounds. We come into being, resonate with each other. Then fade away.
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Away Broken Heart Deep Each Other Fade Live Sound Wind
There are so many things we can’t do anything about if we think about generalities
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Life Thinking
It would be wonderful if I could see the end of civilization during my lifetime.
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Civilization Ending Lifetime Wonderful
People in Japan have experienced many tsunamis and various earthquakes throughout the ages.
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Age Country Earthquake Experience Tsunami
To be born means being compelled to choose an era, a place, a life. To exist here, now, means to lost the possibility of being countless other potential selves.
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Birthday Born Choose Era ExistenceLost Life Place Possiblity Potential
There are all kinds of values within the films but I don’t make message films.
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Film Message Value
Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man.
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Capable Hero Man Woman Women Empowerment
Children understand intuitively that the world they have been born into is not a blessed world.
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Born Children Understand World

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