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• That is a big question we all have: are we alone in the universe? And exoplanets confirm the suspicion that planets are not rare.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Bigs, Planets, Suspicion

  "Why Revive ‘Cosmos?’ Neil DeGrasse Tyson Says Just About Everything We Know Has Changed". Interview With David Freeman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2014.

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• Thinking in mythological terms helps to put you in accord with the inevitables of this vale of tears. You learn to recognize the positive values in what appear to be the negative moments and aspects of your life. The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.

  Joseph Campbell

  Adventure, Thinking, Tears

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.206, Anchor

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• Stories build cultures by answering the big questions.

  Robert McKee

  Culture, Stories, Bigs

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• Relevance is a big, big question. It's more about what's your definition of being relevant. In the music world, agism is a big issue. It's about youth and youth culture. There's no other art form that I know that requires you to be a certain age.

  Larry Mullen, Jr.

  Art, Issues, Age

  Source: collider.com

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• We live in this society where you must constantly be reinventing yourself. The big question is what are you doing next. The only thing they want is composed of these three elements: They want you to do it the exact same way because they want more of it; but they want it to be totally different; and they want it to be better. That's all you have to do. You just have to do something that's exactly the same, totally different, and better.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Different, Three, Elements

  Goodreads Interview, www.goodreads.com. January, 2010.

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• Whenever you talk about writing I think you have to remember that it all has a big question mark over it - every word has a big question mark over it.

  George Saunders

  Writing, Thinking, Remember

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The world of money, of numbers and stock markets and interest rates and credit cards, seems on the surface about as far as it could be from the world of spirituality, of seeking meaningful answers to the big questions of life. ... But these two worlds must flow in and out of each other, because it takes both money and spiritual understanding to sustain it. Truly speaking, what determines where our money with its awesome power will go, and what it will do for ourselves and others? If we listen, those answers come from the center of our being, from who we really are.

  Suze Orman

  Meaningful, Spiritual, Money

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• Religion gives you a sense of certainty. It makes you feel that you have the right answers to really big questions and that youve grasped the truth.

  James Heckman

  Giving, Answers, Bigs

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• I think teenagers bring a lot of intellectual sophistication. They're wrestling with big questions. It's just that, a lot of times they do that separately from adults.

  John Green

  Teenager, Wrestling, Thinking

  "The Fault in Our Stars' John Green on Why He Loves Writing For Teens". Interview with Ryan Roschke, www.popsugar.com. March 31, 2015.

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• The fact is, there aren't just two sides to any issue, there's almost always a range of responses, and "it depends" is almost always the right answer in any big question.

  Linus Torvalds

  Two Sides, Issues, Answers

  Personal blog, torvalds-family.blogspot.ru. November 02, 2008.

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• In a very small way, painting addresses the 'Big Questions' to which we'll never find the answers. You do what you have to do even if it seems hopeless.

  Sam Messer

  Answers, Addresses, Way

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• If someone does learn about the world from reading a novel of mine, that makes me very happy. It's probably not what brings me into the novel in the first place - I usually am pulled in by some big question about the world and human nature that I'm not going to resolve in the course of the novel. But I'm very devoted to getting my facts straight.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Reading, Doe, World

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• Not only do we end up with a vivid, surprising and soulful sense of one artist and his work, but Leigh also offers us a commanding view of a city, London, and country at the dawn of the modern age and of a man being overawed and overtaken by new technologies such as photography and the railways. As ever with Leigh, 'Mr Turner' addresses the big questions with small moments. It's an extraordinary film, all at once strange, entertaining, thoughtful and exciting.

  Dave Calhoun

  Photography, Country, Artist

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• If you do a character, always make the character with a big question mark. Even if the character is very enigmatic and all over the place, make him always with a question mark, because if you turn a question mark upside down, like they do in South America in Spanish, then it becomes a hook.

  Peter Stormare

  Character, America, Hook

  Source: collider.com

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• If you're a history buff, you know about J. Edgar Hoover. He was likely the most powerful man in the US. If you start reading about him, the books contradict each other constantly. I was often left with very little sense of the man personally. I had a sense of what he did and didn't do and what people disagreed about whether he did this or didn't do this or that, but I was like, "Why? Why was he doing all of this?" That was my big question.

  Dustin Lance Black

  Powerful, Reading, Book

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm not a writer who's preaching some particular philosophy or something but the big questions do concern me and I like to make my readers think and debate and argue with each other and look at some aspect of the world or some act of governance or war or power and have an angle they haven't considered before, and that's something I strive for and hopefully have accomplished.

  George R. R. Martin

  Philosophy, War, Thinking

  "EIBF 2014: George R.R. Martin on Game Of Thrones, writing". www.denofgeek.com. August 15, 2014.

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• Life is one big question when your starin at the clock.

  Bradley Nowell

  Life Is, Clock, Bigs

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• There are far more good actors than there are jobs for them, so it's a big question of luck.

  Toby Jones

  Jobs, Luck, Actors

  "Toby Jones Talks THE GIRL, the Process of Finding Alfred Hitchcock, THE HUNGER GAMES, HARRY POTTER, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 20, 2012.

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• It's just about pushing yourself to realms that are uncharted. I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing, I don't know if it's any good, I don't know if it's anything. It's a big question mark. The idea is to have interesting results. That's my bottom line. Not just a creative fantasy world or something like that, but a mood too.

  Ariel Pink

  Ideas, Interesting, Creative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Over the years I've never written or made movies about political themes 'cause while they do have current critical importance, in the large, large scheme of things, only the big questions matter and the answers to those big questions are very, very depressing.

  Woody Allen

  Depressing, Years, Political

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• What Alpha offers, and what is attracting thousands of people, is permission, rare in secular culture, to discuss the big questions - life and death and their meaning.

  Madeleine Bunting

  People, Life And Death, Culture

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• Well, good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some sort of root in the abstract. So automatically you're getting closer to potentially divine sources of interest because it is abstract. It's one of the only ways that a film actor can express himself in the abstract and have audiences still go along for the ride. They don't contend it. They accept it, that they're going to go places that are a bit more of the imagination, a bit more out there, and that's more and more where I like to dance.

  Nicolas Cage

  Intelligent, Roots, People

  "Knowing" Press conference, collider.com. March 18, 2009.

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