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It's hard when you see a scene where it's raining, and we have the rain machine, and you see it for 5 minutes, but that scene takes all day to shoot, and you do it with rain, and the dry off, and go back and do it again.
Morris Chestnut
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Film Actor
Dry
Machines
Minutes
Rain
Scene
All Day
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He saved the production a tremendous amount. Now they did the scene where Omar is on the horse and he's in the deep snow, they went to Finland to do that. That scene they went to Finland for a week. I wasn't around then.
Rod Steiger
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Actor
Finland
Horse
Omar
Saved
Scene
Snow
Week
Tremendous
Tremendous Amount
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'La Lupe' is my passion project. I've done it as a one-woman show, but I'm raising money to turn it into a film. It's a story of a Cuban singer who became the Queen of Latin Soul, the first woman on the N.Y. salsa scene.
Lauren Velez
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Actress
Cuban
Done
Film
One Woman
Passion
Scene
Soul
Became
Show
Woman
First
Project
Singer
Queen
La
Raising
Story
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When I first got involved in the underground metal scene in '82, '83, there were only about five or six major Death or Black Metal bands around. There were so many other bands that were inspirational, that really helped.
Chuck Schuldiner
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Singer-Songwriter
Inspirational
Five
Involved
Scene
Six
Helped
Major
Metal
Underground
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Yeah, it's funny, working on a show with as large a cast as we have here, your work gets sort of compartmentalized. There's still about half the cast that I've never had a scene with but I have missed working with Terry.
Michael Emerson
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Film Actor
Scene
Yeah
Cast
Missed
Terry
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I had written in another draft a completely different kind of fight, but they said they couldn't afford to shoot it. They needed a fight scene, though, so I was told to put a fight scene in, but not the one I had written.
Dana Carvey
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Actor
Scene
Afford
Different Kind
Draft
Fight Scene
Shoot
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Our young people are out on the streets looking for parties, a place to dance, looking for a scene. No institutions are providing them with alternatives, fun things to do that don't necessarily have alcohol at the center.
Donna Shalala
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Dance
Inspirational
Alcohol
Alternatives
Fun
Fun Things
Party
Providing
Scene
Streets
Center
Fun Looking People
Parties
Young People
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Look at Daft Punk and Kanye West. The song 'Stronger' was inspired by a Daft tune. Once the hip-hop scene opens up to all the great music that came out of dance, it will continue to spread to the more mainstream audience.
Little Louie Vega
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Audience
Daft
Great Music
Mainstream
Punk
Scene
Song
Spread
Stronger
Music Great Look
Opens
Tune
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In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant and the critics were all over this as evidence of the genius of Scorsese and Scorsese is a genius.
Alex Cox
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Film Director
Cameras
Critics
Evidence
Genius
Kitchen
Scene
Scorsese
Steps
Walks
Camera
Restaurant
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There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.
Zhang Ziyi
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Film Actress
Men
Character
Mother
Scene
Sick
Bedside
Loves
Wakes
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I haven't had to do too many, or many explicit ones. Everybody feels weird, and everybody is trying to tiptoe around and make you think they're not there. The last time I did a love scene, I couldn't keep a straight face.
Gretchen Mol
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Film Actress
Explicit
Last Time
Scene
Love Time Face
Love Scene
Tiptoe
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I certainly wasn't a fan of Thatcher's politics. People liked to label us as children of Thatcher. What nonsense. The real children of Thatcher came in the 1990s, and had no interest in politics. The Oasis, Britpop scene.
Gary Kemp
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Musician
Nonsense
Oasis
Scene
Fan
Certainly
Liked
Label
No Interest
Thatcher
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I really dig the scene that's happening now, I really do, because there might be a lot of bad things going on, but if out of all of those bad things ten per cent of the groovy part of it stays, wow... you can't beat that.
Bruce Johnston
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Bad Things
Groovy
Scene
Ten
Wow
Beat
Cent
Dig
Happening
Per
Stays
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The writer must be a participant in the scene... like a film director who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work, and somehow manages to film himself in action, as the protagonist or at least the main character.
Hunter S. Thompson
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Journalist
Scene
Scripts
Director
Camera
Main
Main Character
Participant
Protagonist
Somehow
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I don't like when you necessarily know that this is the end of the movie. I like when a movie ends abruptly. You go through this, and some of the scenes are uncomfortable, and some are funny - and then suddenly it's over.
Noah Baumbach
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Writer
Ends
Scene
Uncomfortable
Abruptly
Suddenly
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It's like a piece of music; you never lose sight of the theme. Each scene pushes off to the next like music builds and you can almost hear the next chord progression, so it has a strict structure, which is very compelling.
David Strathairn
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Actor
Compelling
Progression
Scene
Sight
Strict
Structure
Theme
Builds
Chord
Pushes
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I have two concerns with my work: having good things to act, and getting paid. In that order. Although if you're not getting paid well, that order can change. But that's what I'm concerned about. Good scenes. Decent money.
Terry O'quinn
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Actor
Concerned
Decent
Good Things
Order
Scene
Two
Change Work Good
Scenes
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Only the change on the international scene, the crisis in the gulf, and the strong, firm position of the United States against aggression between two Arab countries created realities that led to the Madrid Peace Conference.
Yitzhak Rabin
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Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Country
Crisis
Firm
International
Madrid
Position
Reality
Scene
Strong
Arab
Arab Countries
Conference
Countries
Gulf
Led
Peace Conference
Realities
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I'm probably most proud of the plays that I've written just because as the playwright, you know, you're God. You get to do everything. You don't make any money hardly at all, but you really get to kind of control the scene.
John Buffalo Mailer
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Author
Kind
Proud
Scene
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So nonetheless given the importance that was placed on sport in Australia, I wanted to be part of that scene, particularly since I had felt very strongly in my early schooling being marginalised even in the Catholic school.
Thomas Keneally
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Novelist
Sports
Australia
Catholic
Catholic School
Given
Importance
Scene
School
Early
Sport
Particularly
Marginalised
Nonetheless
Placed
Strongly
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Talk about high school and what we identify with in the play; things that have happened to us and all of our high school experiences that we could bring to this. And to talk about what everyone knows in each specific scene.
Sarah Steele
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Film Actress
Play
Scene
School
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Sometimes a scene may be about one thing, and it may end up still being about that, but the emotionality of it comes from somewhere else, or the humor of it comes from somewhere else, and it gives it that real-life quality.
Kyle Chandler
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Film Actor
Humor
Scene
Somewhere Else
Somewhere
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I actually find it harder to act in the scenes where there's not much happening, say having a milkshake in the diner. That is far harder to do than straight scenes where there's a drama going on and you have something to do
Chris Hemsworth
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Actor
Diners
Drama
Scene
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Sydney's beautiful, the weather's great, and the air's fresh and clean, but it doesn't have the scene and the amount of likeminded people. At home, things are very comfortable, but I feel like putting myself out there a bit.
Flume
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Music Producer
Home
Air
Amount
Clean
Comfortable
Scene
Sydney
Weather
Home Great Myself
Bit
Putting
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There's a lot of reasons I had to move on. Family's definitely a big part of it. And the longevity of my career - I played for 15 years, and I was just tired of the whole international scene. It's quite busy. Very stressful.
Ab De Villiers
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Cricketer
Busy
International
Longevity
Scene
Stressful
Tired
Big Part
Move On
Reasons
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I remember in 'Pride and Prejudice' I had to do a scene where I broke down. And before we filmed I spent like three hours imagining my mum's funeral. Actually, she's very much alive, happy and healthy. It was really horrible.
Carey Mulligan
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Actress
Alive
Broke
Funeral
Healthy
Horrible
Mum
Prejudice
Pride
Scene
Imagining
Pride And Prejudice
Spent
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However, if we examine the Canadian scene closely enough, we can see signs of this physical and spiritual rot settling into a number of our Canadian urban centres with a troubling spill-over into many of our more rural areas.
Alex Campbell
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Politician
Numbers
Rural Areas
Scene
Settling
Spiritual
Urban
Area
Closely
Examine
However
Physical
Rot
Rural
Signs
Troubling
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That scene in 'The Purge' where my kids, Mary's kids, are in danger was really crazy for me, because I suddenly... I have my methods as an actor, so I went to the place of 'If somebody came near my children, with bad intent?'
Lena Headey
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Actress
Danger
Mary
Scene
Actor
Intent
Near
Purge
Suddenly
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If somebody came up with a really good idea, everyone would back it. Especially when we did the show, we had a real dedication that, if you were in somebody else's scene, everyone worked their hardest to make that scene good.
Dave Foley
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Actor
Scene
Good Idea
Worked
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To me, a sex scene in a movie generally means a gratuitous scene that doesn't serve the story but gives a kind of excuse - we've got these two actors, we want to see them naked, so let's bring in the music and the soft light.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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Actor
Excuse
Naked
Scene
Sex
Music Light Me
Generally
Gratuitous
Serve
Soft
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I feel like Drake saw that I was up-and-coming in the gaming scene, and he thought it would be a perfect way to just tap into another source of viewers by playing with me. He also might have just wanted to game. I'm not sure.
Ninja
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Gaming
Might
Perfect
Scene
Source
Viewers
Wanted
Feel
Me Game Way
Sure
Another
Also
Me Game Feel
Game
Drake
He
Game Me Feel
Tap
Game Me Way
Saw
Would
Playing
Up-And-Coming
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I think is very beneficial to relax yourself so that when you are doing it you are not staggering for lines and your concentration is not on what I am going to say - but the scene itself, the character that you are talking to.
Dabney Coleman
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Actor
Beneficial
Concentration
Lines
Relax
Scene
Staggering
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I did love that scene in the movie [ "Our Brand Is Crisis"] because it's like "The Wizard of Oz." You see the backstage action of politics. You have access to see behind the curtain. You see how it's all one big advertisement.
Sandra Bullock
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Actress
Action
Scene
Wizards
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My reputation was built on hostility. I had no friends and some very virulent enemies in the old-guard art scene when I began. They threw their heavy artillery against me. They were convinced I was perverting the public taste.
Betty Parsons
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Artillery
Convinced
Heavy
Hostility
No Friends
Reputation
Scene
Taste
Began
Public
Enemies
Threw
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I was looking at the work of the New York street artists and then discovering Basquiat and Haring after that and seeing how the contemporary art scene was, and then going back into Warhol and all that was happening in the 60s.
Robert Del Naja
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Contemporary
Contemporary Art
Discovering
Scene
Warhol
Artists
Street
Happening
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It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. But if you find it as beautiful as the character does, then suddenly it becomes a different movie, and so did he as a character.
Sam Mendes
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Film Director
Beautiful
Character
Cutting
Long Time
Plastic
Scene
Bag
Becomes
Cut
Plastic Bag
Suddenly
Took
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There's a word the teabaggers have wanted to use since Obama came on the scene, but they can't because it's not the 1950s. They would love to say this word. It begins with an N and ends with -er, and it's not "nation-builder."
Bill Maher
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Comedian
Ends
Scene
Use
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I come from a TV background, so for me this more like doing a freeing theatre piece because we'd go into a room and do the scene, instead of doing it as a wide shot, medium shot, and close up with only the odd line of dialogue.
Jennifer Sky
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Actress
Dialogue
Odd
Scene
Theatre
Wide
Me Doing More
Background
Shot
Freeing
Medium
Piece
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The best moments can't be preconceived. I've spent a lot of time in editing rooms, and a scene can be technically perfect, with perfect delivery and facial expression and timing, and you remember all your lines, and it is dead.
Brad Pitt
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Actor
Delivery
Editing
Expression
Facial
Lines
Moments
Perfect
Remember
Rooms
Scene
Timing
Best Time Your
Dead
Technically
Preconceived
Spent
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Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Philosopher
Childhood
Concepts
Homesickness
Incapable
Kind
Scene
Histories
Individuals
Retain
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You can't give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside - so be it. But at least you know you've tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it.
Robert Plant
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Musician
Believe
Equal
Financial
Giving Up
Hundred
Minutes
Roadside
Scene
Ten
Years
Die
Hundred Years
Least
Music Scene
Outside
Reasons
Ten Minutes
Tried
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I watched a couple of really bad directors work, and I saw how they completely botched it up and missed the visual opportunities of the scene when we had put things in front of them as opportunities. Set pieces, props and so on.
James Cameron
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Film Director
Opportunity
Couple
Directors
Props
Scene
Visual
Watched
Missed
Opportunities
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The last scene in 'Moonlight,' that's one of the most extraordinary things I've ever seen on film in my lifetime. You see two men showing such tenderness towards each other. And it's bold; it's deep. It's complex. It's profound.
Frances Mcdormand
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Film Actress
Extraordinary
Extraordinary Things
Film
Lifetime
Moonlight
Profound
Scene
Tenderness
Seen
Bold
Complex
Deep
Towards
Last
Showing
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When I saw the scene in 'Close Encounters,' and Richard Dreyfuss's son is screaming at him - that's a heartbreaking scene. And I remember being devastated by 'E.T.' Or when E.T. started to get sick. That broke me up a little bit.
Jeff Nichols
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Broke
Devastated
Encounters
Heartbreaking
Scene
Sick
Son
Richard
Screaming
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I have this absurd syndrome where I get these out-of-the-blue, pathetic panic attacks. It'll be in a very easy, simple scene when everything is going swimmingly, and then suddenly, bang, I'm shvitzing and can't remember my lines.
Hugh Grant
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Actor
Absurd
Lines
Panic
Pathetic
Scene
Attacks
Bang
Suddenly
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In a sense, I revolutionized the operatic scene because I proved you can make a great international career without the Metropolitan. I'm the only singer who's done that, and I'm proud of that, so it's all worked out for the best.
Beverly Sills
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Operatic Soprano
International
Metropolitan
Proud
Scene
Best Great Done
Singer
Proved
Revolutionized
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The best preparation for acting is life - observing life and people and observing yourself. All that becomes your library. So when you have to research a part, a scene or an emotion, you go into the library and get what you need.
Kate Capshaw
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Film Actress
Emotion
Library
Observing
People
Preparation
Scene
Life Best Yourself
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What I have in advance are people I want to write about and a problem or problems that I see those people encountering and that I want to explore - it all proceeds sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, and scene by scene.
Chaim Potok
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Author
Paragraph
Scene
Advance
Explore
Proceeds
Sentence
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I direct as an actor. Many times, I will say, 'Let me try this.' And I'll walk the scene through and see what I can tell the actor about it. I don't know what to tell him until I've actually tried it and seen what the problem is.
Peter Bogdanovich
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Film Director
Direct
Scene
Walk Me Will
Me Will See
Walk
Tried
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Looking through the camera lens reduces noise; as humans we see a million shapes, colours and textures. What the lens does, what art does in general, is get rid of all the noise. It hones in and isolates the qualities of a scene.
Greig Fraser
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Humans
Noise
Scene
Shapes
General
Camera
Colours
Lens
Million
Qualities
Rid
Textures
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