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“My uncle, who was a little more flamboyant, always said the guy who dressed the best was Fred Astaire.”
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“When a Jew, in America or in South Africa, talks to his Jewish companions about 'our' government, he means the government of Israel.”
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“The concept of industry domination of regulatory agencies was well known and documented in the literature by the 1960s.”
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“The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world. All we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them!”
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“Shame weighs a lot more than flesh and bone.”
Source : Portia de Rossi (2011). “Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain”, p.234, Simon and Schuster
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“The biggest challenges are always getting into the rooms that you need to get into and having people open to the types of stories that I want to tell. And I feel that just being a female director and doing that is a big deal in this country. On my third movie I worked with a French DP. I asked him has he ever worked with a woman director before? He said in France a third of directors are women; so you can’t avoid them. So I realized that the US is behind.”
Source : "Interview: Kasi Lemmons & Raphael Saadiq Talk ‘Black Nativity’ – Casting, Soundtrack & More". Interview with Masha Dowell, www.indiewire.com. November 18, 2013.
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“Pitching... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears”
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“When I haven't been kissed in a long time, I create civil disturbances, then insult the cops who show up, till one of them grabs me by the collar and hurls me up against the squad car, so I can remember, at least for a moment, what it's like to be touched.”