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...done to the brain of a young kid. And then going home, but not normally like most kids. The government put them out on this war-bond drive. They came back to a million people at Times Square, and climbing these paper mache mountains, all this Hollywood kind of stuff. In fact we're talking about the propaganda machine. The propaganda machine is our subject matter...
...something like you're holding your soul in. You're just not baring it. It's something that is private, and if you brought it out you might bring out a lot of bad stuff with it. Ira Hayes [in a scene in the movie] says, Wouldn't it be great if the other guys - meaning the other three compadres who are dead - could be here on this train, eating with silverware and all these niceties? He's in a drunken stupor and he just says, "We shouldn't be here." And that sort of sums the whole thing...
...fight - and die - for his country, is like that for me, too. But most of the political structure I get so disappointed at. We're reduced to a society that is sitting here arguing about who used the "N word" 30 years ago. You see grown men doing this stuff in order to get into a power position, and it's really kind of disgraceful...
...that all these people who have made his days miserable are going to have that experience, and he'll never have it. How does he get over that crushing disappointment? The greatest achievement of Moses' life is not the plagues or the Red Sea or any of that stuff. The greatest achievement is that he comes to the end of his days not angry at God, not bitter over not having gotten what he deserves in life. And it's in that way that I think Moses can be a model for us. TIME: Is Overcoming Life's Disappointments...
...always focused on music as a career. Indeed, when asked if he was involved in the arts at Harvard, Mattison responds, “not really…I studied English.” He elaborates: “I played in all kinds of bands and stuff in junior high and high school but it’s just kind of this assumption that music is not a very serious way to make a living…I had always hoped I could do it, but in college I focused on studying…I wasn?...