"The filmmakers aren't running the studios anymore. Sometimes people who like films are making them, but by and large, they have to go report quarterly earnings and all that stuff. The competition is so huge that it's very hard to get people to show up to see any movie in the theater, much less an original one that isn't a version of something else they saw."

-- Tom Hanks

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“In Cleveland, I'm so fortunate that we're surrounded by farms with an endless variety of beautiful vegetables. For me, I always eat very tightly with the season, even if the season is only six weeks.”

Source : "Meat Man Michael Symon Does Meatless Monday". Interview with Peggy Neu, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2012.
“I wasn't interested in just photographing someone naked, I was interested in representing them as clothed in their own skin, secure in themselves.”
“I wish I had a boyfriend. I wish he lived in the wardrobe on a coat hanger. Whenever I wanted, I could get him out and he'd look at me the way boys do in films, as if I'm beautiful.”

Source : Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books
“I'm the original take-orders girl.”
“In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.”

Source : "Why Is Sam Taylor-Wood Smiling?" by Elisa Lipsky-Karasz, www.harpersbazaar.com. March 23, 2010.
“Not to hope for things to last forever, is what the year teaches and even the hour which snatches a nice day away.”
“I'm trying to take culture and put it onstage, demonstrate it is capable of sustaining you. There is no idea that can't be contained by life: Asian life, European life, certainly black life. My plays are about love, honor, duty, betrayal - things humans have written about since the beginning of time.”
“Do you know how much damage we could do to each other in an hour?”

Source : David Bischoff (1987). “Some Kind of Wonderful”, Laurel Leaf

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