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“I'm a judge. It seemed to me that it was critical to try to take action to stem the criticism and help people understand that in the constitutional framework, it's terribly important not to have a system of retaliation against decisions people don't like.”
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“Now let me be clear; millions of women around the world nurse their children beautifully for years without giving anybody else a hard time about it. Teat Nazis are a solely western upper-middle-class phenomenon occurring when highly ambitious women experience deprivation from outside modes of achievement.”
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“I am also well aware that literature only has a minimal influence on political disputes or economic crises in the world, but its significance to human beings is ancient.”
Source : "Mo Yan accepts Nobel prize, defends 'necessary' censorship" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2012.
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“Over, over, there is a soft place in my heart for all that is over, no, for the being over, words have been my only loves, not many.”
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“Films with a message just make me laugh.”
Source : "Surfer on the new wave" by Peter Lennon, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2001.
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“What we can't speak, we say in silence.”
Source : "Mudbound". Book by Hillary Jordan, March 4, 2008.
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“I was always told that I was too small, too skinny, too slow, not tough enough, and I never ever believed what people told me.”
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“I still find doing portraits a terrific challenge, but even though I've done hundreds of them, I've never stopped questioning the very nature of portraiture because it deals exclusively with appearances. I've never believed people are what they look like and think it's impossible to really know what people are.”