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“I think I have the philosophy that if you just run as fast as you can headlong into the future, maybe you don’t have to turn around and look behind you,” Anderson says.

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For those who wish to find a political reading in the movie, it’s there for them, a parable about migration and fascism but also the euphoria of a headlong rush into the unknown.

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No matter how chaotic my history, I can learn how to safeguard my serenity so I don’t have to drag people into my drama anymore or leap headlong into theirs.

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A classroom of third graders has vanished in the middle of the night, each child running headlong into the shadows with their limbs outstretched like paper planes.

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Her efforts ran headlong into what would become the worst drug shortage in modern history.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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