In grad school, my video editing professor made us watch Once Upon a Time in the West after I chose Once Upon a Time in America as an example of extraordinary video editing (the scene when the boy is shot). The problem is that I am not a Western film buff. I like a few select Westerns (Unforgiven) but I like seeing characters when they were kids, esp. gangsters.

I got an A on that assignment but maybe I should go back and see the Western one again.

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"Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own"
--Paulo Coelho, "The Alchemist"

"Know thyself"

"Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, "I will never leave you or forsake you". So we may boldly say, "The Lord is my helper, I will not fear. What can man do to me?"
-- Hebrews 13:5,6

"There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path"
--Morpheus in "The Matrix" (and a Buddhist philosophy)

"It's our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities"- Dumbledore to Harry Potter "Chamber of Secrets"