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The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.


Walter Kirn

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WALTER SCOTT A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some kno...
WALTER SCOTT Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
WALTER SCOTT We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
WALTER SCOTT Look back, and smile on perils past.
WALTER SCOTT When I come to London, I always like to see what's playing at the NFT.
WALTER SALLES We all knew the book well because it's the cult book in Latin America. For me, this was a sacred...
WALTER SALLES The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.
WALTER SALLES The other aspect is that you become much more aware of the structural problems that pertain to that ...
WALTER SALLES The necessity to conceptualise has to come very early on, and defining a vector of development for t...
WALTER SALLES The films that I've done before were original stories most of the time, I did two adaptations be...
WALTER SALLES That's why I have always admired documentaries, because they open windows that can make you unde...
WALTER SALLES So when I was very young, I longed for Brazil.
WALTER SALLES So the search for a father in Central Station is also a search for a country.
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