"Foreign capital to build new cinemas will help modernize China's aging cinema infrastructure, attract Chinese consumers back into cinemas, and increase demand for U.S. films."

-- Jack Valenti

#Chinese Quotes #Cinema Quotes #Demand Quotes

“Most people canâ€™t stomach silence; it provides too much opportunity to think about things they prefer to avoid.”
“It's hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is.”

Source : Interview in Discover magazine Vol. 27, No. 07, July 2006.
“Our historical bequest is sublime. I have inherited a fragmented but highlyÂ creative exile and, since 1948, a home. I don't know that I want to settle there.Â I prefer the creative spur of exile. () But wherever I am I shall be Jewish, andÂ that sound will inform every syllable I write. I am blessed with a long ancestryÂ of wisdom, prophecy, and promise, a line of overwhelming creativeÂ achievements, courage, humor, and, above all, a dogged and chronic permanence, the greatest legacy of all.”
“If I was a cabinetmaker or a commercial fisherman, it would be the same question - how to connect to my world. The job we do affords us the opportunity to have people listen to what we say. But a lot of people have a similar situation: They're trying to find a way to do some good.”

Source : "Arcade Fire’s Band Aid for Haiti". Interview With Alan Light, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2011.
“Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.”
“Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.”

Source : Attributed to Torvalds at 1996 FSF conference,
“I love my family, I love my relatives. One special request I have is for the media back in Taiwan to kind of give them their space because they can't even go to work without being bombarded and people following them.”
“I took part in the sun-tanning Olympics â€“ I just got bronze.”

Source : "Edinburgh fringe's 10 funniest jokes revealed" by Mark Brown, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2012.

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