I look at the human sciences as poetic sciences in which there is no objectivity, and I see film as not being objective, and cinema verite as a cinema of lies that depends on the art of telling yourself lies. If you’re a good storyteller then the lie is more true than reality, and if you’re a bad one, the truth is worse than a half lie. Jean Rouch
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  1. And Nate? You kiss like a slobbering dog, you have bad breath, and you wouldn't know how to punch the right buttons on a girl if we came with manuals. Happy Thanksgiving, Jackass.
  2. I look at the hundreds of algebra problems facing me in the next three days. And here I thought I’d figured out the equation to my happiness.
  3. I wouldn’t change a thing Because all those things led me tothis place And to you
  4. I remembered reading somewhere that if you smile at something, it automatically makes you happier.
  5. I’m an idiot for thinking that one performance would change anything. Maybe I should stop writing songs and start writing fiction.
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