"It's a reality of film festivals that you can't see everything. You're dividing your time between seeing films and utilizing that unique space to have meetings with people that you can't otherwise."

-- Thom Powers

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“For us what we're trying to do is find the right balance of creating a space for emotion that leads to a sense of empathy and solidarity rather than a sense of division. In my most grandiose moments I think of HuffPost as a platform that makes solidarity possible, that really thinking about the emotional content of stories is a way to help people who think, or who have been manipulated to think, that they're interests are opposed to one another, that they actually are aligned in a fundamental way and they're actually in the same boat.”
“Soul yearns to return home to God. Home to God means the area of supreme divine love that has no conditions attached to it: unconditional love.”
“When you depend on another's perceptions to match your expectations, you're setting yourself up for disappointment.”
“Writing, therefore, is also an act of courage. How much easier is it to lead an unexamined life than to confront yourself on the page? How much easier is it to surrended to materialism or cynicism or to a hundred other ways of life that are, in fact, ways to hide from life and from our fears. When we write, we resist the facile seduction of theses simpler roads. We insist on finding out and declaring the truths that we find, and we dare to out those truths on the page.”
“I've been married to the same man - even after the separation - longer than most people in this business. I'm sick to death of people mentioning it.”
“I guess the reasons against having more children always seem uninspiring and superficial. What exactly am I missing out on? Money? A few more hours of sleep? A more peaceful meal? More hair? These are nothing compared to what I get from these five monsters who rule my life.”
“Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.”

Source : John Dewey (1980). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924”, p.161, SIU Press
“Rennie didn't quite dare to answer back, but she looked a whole book and a couple of extra chapters.”

Source : Patricia C. Wrede (2010). “Thirteenth Child”, p.129, Scholastic Inc.

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