"Documentaries - my God, there is so much going on in our country and in the world today that every time you open the newspaper or turn on the radio or watch the news on TV there is another documentary subject. We're getting the headlines for a second, shaped by corporate delivery most of the time, but what's really the story there?"

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Source : "Conversation: Director Jonathan Demme on His New Film and Hero, Carolyn Parker". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. September 20, 2012.

Jonathan Demme

#Country Quotes #Watches Quotes #News Quotes

“It is as big a mistake to turn down a good shot as it is to take a bad one”
“No movement finding itself in this stage of struggle can operate by getting authority from the leading body of the political organs for even minor action that is taken and we don't even know in the case of the actions which have publicize whether they are in fact our people.”
“Not every novel that wants to be a tragedy gets to be one.”
“Someone taught me how to eat properly. Learning from others is important when it's not working for yourself.”
“Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.”
“For man, the death of the body is inevitable, and is determined by time and circumstance; but, with proper precaution, the death of the soul may be totally avoided.”

Source : William Batchelder Greene (1875). “Socialistic, Communistic, Mutualistic, and Financial Fragments”, p.81
“Only religion can lead to such evil.”
“witch-hunting misogyny is fiercely recurrent in this nation, even if its forms vary with the ages.”

Source : Patricia J. Williams (1995). “The Rooster's Egg”, p.3, Harvard University Press

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