"News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news."

-- Friedrich Durrenmatt

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“To the seeker after pearls, silence is a speaking argument, for no breath comes forth from the diver of the sea.”
“I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.”
“The Sacrament of the Body of the Lord puts the demons to flight, defends us against the incentives to vice and to concupiscence, cleanses the soul from sin, quiets the anger of God, enlightens the understanding to know God, inflames the will and the affections with the love of God, fills the memory with spiritual sweetness, confirms the entire man in good, frees us from eternal death, multiplies the merits of a good life, leads us to our everlasting home, and re-animates the body to eternal life”
“Character actors just pile up the credits because you work on a movie for like a few days. It's not like I'm the lead in everything I do - far from it. I'm not spending three or four months on a picture; I'm spending three or four weeks. Sometimes three or four days.”
“I make sure that my pictures are not too erotic and that they always have a trace of humor. I make sure they are â€˜in good taste.â€™ Either you understand it or not.”
“I've probably saved thousands of peoples' lives with my educational message on snake bites, how to get in around venomous anything.”
“One of the biggest things going on in London, Amsterdam, San Francisco, and New York right now is gentrification. Every major city is dealing with gentrification, and it's always the sex workers they come for first. Cities feel they have to clean up their image and make themselves more attractive for tourism, more attractive to businesses. The Gezi Park struggle in Turkey a few years ago, for example, was a popular movement defending public space and land. What I found when I was digging into the goings on there was that the park was a place where transgender sex workers felt safe.”
“When you're just writing, you can do anything with it. But with TV, you've gotta work within certain budget constraints, so you've got to pick and choose your battles.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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