"There was a widespread indignation in the American media. They were saying, How can you make a movie during an election that's about politics? What are you doing? Are you trying to influence people's lives? To which my response was, Well, I hope so."

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Source : "Liberal America's last stand" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. July 21, 2005.

John Sayles

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“Although I have felt compelled to write things down since I was five years old, I doubt that my daughter ever will, for she is a singularly blessed and accepting child, delighted with life exactly as life presents itself to her, unafraid to go to sleep and unafraid to wake up. Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss.”
“What's been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.”
“Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended.”

Source : Lactantius (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Lactantius (Annotated Edition)”, p.36, Jazzybee Verlag
“Music is the vapor of art. It is to poetry what reverie is to thought, what fluid is to solid, what the ocean of clouds is to the ocean of waves.”
“Your trials can release your Gifts and Dreams. Your trials can set you free.”
“If you can laugh at yourself, you are going to be fine. If you allow others to laugh with you, you will be great.”
“Friendship between two women is always a plot against another one.”
“If you're going to let pressure stop you from fulfilling your dreams, you're robbing yourself.”

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