"Fortunate persons hardly ever amend their ways: they always imagine that they are in the right when fortune upholds their bad conduct."

-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“As a Black woman filmmaker I feel thatâ€™s my job: visibility. And my preference within that job is Black subjectivity. Meaning Iâ€™m interested in the lives of Black folk as the subject. Not the predicate, not the tangent.[These stories] deserve to be told. Not as sociology, not as spectacle, not as a singular event that happens every so often, but regularly and purposefully as truth and as art on an ongoing basis, as do the stories of all the women you love.”
“It's a great role for any age. Any actress wishes they would find a screenplay that means as much to them as "Aquarius" meant to me, as a person and a citizen.”
“Emptiness and boredom: what a complete understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair and boredom.”
“The tax rate of 35 percent is impossible to provide an incentive to the large corporations, that have $1.7 trillion offshore, to put their money back in the United States.”
“I don't care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.”
“Some people act as if there were a penalty for carrying concealed troubles. They exhibit them at every opportunity, begging for sympathy, even condescending to accept pity. Such persons never realize that the very ones to whom they are complaining are often struggling under a burden greater than their own.”
“Presenting leadership as a list of carefully defined qualities (like strategic, analytical, and performance-ori ented) no longer holds. Instead, true leadership stems from individuality that is honestly and sometimes imperfectly expressed.... Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.”
“Today,â€™ said Lymond, â€˜if you must know, I donâ€™t like living at all. But thatâ€™s just immaturity boggling at the sad face of failure. Tomorrow Iâ€™ll be bright as a bedbug again.”

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