In this task, you're given a sentence and your task is to generate a simplified sentence that focuses on lexical paraphrasing from the original sentence given in the input.

Q: brusque is a city of 94,962 inhabitants in santa catarina , brazil.

A: brusque is a city of 94,962 people in santa catarina , brazil.
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Q: davis was responsible for character design for both the pirates of the caribbean and haunted mansion attractions at disneyland.

A: davis designed the characters for pirates of the caribbean and haunted mansion at disneyland.
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Q: film director richard linklater discusses this novel in his film waking life , which begins with a scene reminiscent of another dick novel , time out of joint.

A:
richard linklater , who is a film director , has mentioned this book in his film waking life . this movie has a similiar opening scene to another book by dick , which is called " time out of joint ".
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