"Network news accustoms audiences to assertion not argument. Over time, it reinforces the notion that politics is about visceral identification and apposition, not complex problems and their solutions. ... sound bites aren't very helpful. They can tell a voter what a candidate believes, but not why. And many issues are too complex to be freeze dried into a slogan and a smile. ... What's lost in a world in which everything's an ad? Perhaps the country that created the assembly line has simply found a more efficient way to do politics."

-- Kathleen Hall Jamieson

#Country Quotes #Believe Quotes #Issues Quotes

“So at last the communists who piled out of the Berlin Wall and into the environmental movement and took over Greenpeace so that my friends who founded it left within a year because they'd captured it. Now the apotheosis is at hand. They are about to impose a communist world government on the world.”

Source : "Monckton's circus of climate change denial arrives in cloud cuckoo land" by Leo Hickman, www.theguardian.com. October 20, 2009.
“Imagination paints a charming view of the future, conveniently adapted to the demands of our current emotion.”
“If a man can dream, if a man can have goals, he can be happy and he can be alive. If he has no goals he doesn't even have a future.”
“The old age of women is bearable only on condition that they do not take up any room, do not make any noise, do not demand any service; on condition that they render all the service that is expected of them, and actually have no existence except for the good of others.”
“We just did a few takes of a song and just picked the best one. It was real organic and genuine.”
“Some men, like spaniels, will only fawn the more when repulsed, but will pay little heed to a friendly caress.”
“In another life, I would love to be the art guy - a production designer or a maybe even a composer.”

Source : "Filmmaker Fede Alvarez digs up scares with 'Evil Dead'". Interview with Joseph Airdo, www.axs.com. April 4, 2013.
“I think the financial restraint really pushes me as a director to be more creative with the way I shoot the film.”

Source : "Interview: James Wan, Leigh Whannell Talk ‘Insidious’ & Classic Horror". Interview with Rob Frappier, screenrant.com. March 13, 2011.

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