"If you try to use Christ as a solution to your problems, it will not work. You have to serve Him in order for Him to serve you."

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Source : Alexandra Adornetto (2012). “Heaven”, p.156, Macmillan

Alexandra Adornetto

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“I've always been famous, it's just no one knew it yet.”
“The values that reside in art are anarchic, they are every man's loves and hates and his momentary divine revelation.”
“A woman may race to get a man a gift but it always ends in a tie.”
“Politicians who wear little tennis socks with the balls at the back should not be taken seriously.”
“Itâ€™s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps itâ€™s just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.”
“I think I think too much. That's why I drink!”
“You have to question a cinematic culture that preaches artistic expression, and yet would support a decision that is clearly a product of a patriarchy-dominant society, which tries to control how women are depicted on screen. The MPAA is okay supporting scenes that portray women in scenarios of sexual torture and violence for entertainment purposes, but they are trying to force us to look away from a scene that shows a woman in a sexual scenario, which is both complicit and complex. It's misogynistic in nature to try and control a woman's sexual presentation of self.”

Source : "How Did 'Blue Valentine' Change Our Concept Of Nc-17?" by Kat Rosenfield, www.mtv.com. December 9, 2015.
“The movie I've watched a million times is 'A Face in the Crowd,' directed by Elia Kazan, starring Andy Griffith and Patricia Neal. I first saw this movie, I guess I was in my early 20s. I'd never heard of it, and somebody told me about it, and I watched it and was just completely jaw-droppingly shocked at how current it was.”

Source : "The Movie Callie Khouri Has 'Seen A Million Times'". "All Things Considered" with Celeste Headlee, news.stlpublicradio.org. October 14, 2012.

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