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When I read Housekeeping, it wasn't from the point of filming. It was months and months later that the idea of making it into a movie caught.


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BILL GATES To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes so...
BILL GATES Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.
BILL GATES People everywhere love Windows.
BILL GATES I'm never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.
BILL GATES The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.
BILL GATES If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago...
BILL GATES Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.
BILL GATES Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.
BILL GATES I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.
BILL GATES China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.
BILL GATES The best teacher is very interactive.
BILL GATES Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.
BILL GATES The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.
BILL GATES Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it k...
BILL GATES I'm a geek.
BILL GATES I know there's a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that's fine with me.
BILL GATES If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, a...
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