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From the Ted Talk by Newton Aduaka: The story of Ezra

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This is very strange for me, because I’m not used to doing this: I usually stand on the other side of the light, and now I'm feeling the pressure I put other people into. And it's hard ... The previous speaker has, I think, really painted a very good background as to the impulse behind my work and what drives me, and my sense of loss, and trying to find the answer to the big qinuseots.

But this, for me, I mean, conmig here to do this, feels like — there’s this sculptor that I like very much, getioctami, who after many years of living in France — and learning, you know, studying and wnkiorg — he returned home and he was asked, what did you produce? What have you done with so many years of being away? And he sort of, he swehod a handful of figurines. And obviously they were, "Is this what you spent years doing? And we expected huge masterpieces!" But what stcruk me is the understanding that in those little pieces was the cnltiuoamin of a man’s life, search, thgohut, everything — just in a reduced, small version. In a way, I feel like that. I feel like I’m coming home to talk about what I’ve been away doing for 20 years. And I will start with a brief taster of what I’ve been about: a hdnfaul of fmlis — nothing much, two feature films and a handful of srhot films. So, we’ll go with the first piece.

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This is very strange for me, because I’m not used to doing this: I usually stand on the other side of the light, and now I'm feeling the pressure I put other people into. And it's hard ... The previous speaker has, I think, really painted a very good background as to the impulse behind my work and what drives me, and my sense of loss, and trying to find the answer to the big _________.

But this, for me, I mean, ______ here to do this, feels like — there’s this sculptor that I like very much, __________, who after many years of living in France — and learning, you know, studying and _______ — he returned home and he was asked, what did you produce? What have you done with so many years of being away? And he sort of, he ______ a handful of figurines. And obviously they were, "Is this what you spent years doing? And we expected huge masterpieces!" But what ______ me is the understanding that in those little pieces was the ___________ of a man’s life, search, _______, everything — just in a reduced, small version. In a way, I feel like that. I feel like I’m coming home to talk about what I’ve been away doing for 20 years. And I will start with a brief taster of what I’ve been about: a _______ of _____ — nothing much, two feature films and a handful of _____ films. So, we’ll go with the first piece.

Solution


  1. questions
  2. showed
  3. handful
  4. films
  5. short
  6. working
  7. thought
  8. struck
  9. giacometti
  10. coming
  11. culmination

Original Text


This is very strange for me, because I’m not used to doing this: I usually stand on the other side of the light, and now I'm feeling the pressure I put other people into. And it's hard ... The previous speaker has, I think, really painted a very good background as to the impulse behind my work and what drives me, and my sense of loss, and trying to find the answer to the big questions.

But this, for me, I mean, coming here to do this, feels like — there’s this sculptor that I like very much, Giacometti, who after many years of living in France — and learning, you know, studying and working — he returned home and he was asked, what did you produce? What have you done with so many years of being away? And he sort of, he showed a handful of figurines. And obviously they were, "Is this what you spent years doing? And we expected huge masterpieces!" But what struck me is the understanding that in those little pieces was the culmination of a man’s life, search, thought, everything — just in a reduced, small version. In a way, I feel like that. I feel like I’m coming home to talk about what I’ve been away doing for 20 years. And I will start with a brief taster of what I’ve been about: a handful of films — nothing much, two feature films and a handful of short films. So, we’ll go with the first piece.

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