"The only condition a library asks its users to honor is to do justice to their own imagination, their own curiosity and their own thirst for knowledge, and in the process, to achieve their own independence of mind and spirit."

-- Vartan Gregorian

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“I'm not attracted to naturalism, I'm not attracted to behavior, I'm attracted to dance. I'm attracted to gesture, I'm attracted to singing with your voice, as opposed to having a natural manner. I'm a theater actor first, so that probably influences a lot of my approach. And I think in many ways, naturalism has ruined movies.”

Source : "Sculpting Away". Interview with Simon Abrams, www.indiewire.com. March 19, 2012.
“For the state of our union to be strong, we need to place value in Americans.”
“ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.”
“Design is interesting because it's utopian. Art is often a jaundiced commentary on contemporary life. Design is always about the future; it's always about something great and new that's come out that will make the future brighter. It has this weird 18th - century positivism about it.”
“Sometimes, you get portrayed the way you don't want to be portrayed.”
“Directors are like generals, political dictators, aggressive people...And everyone in the film is always grateful if you can tell them what to do.”
“Christmas is a season which almost all Christians observe in one way or another. Some keep it as a religious season. Some keep it as a holiday. But all over the world, wherever there are Christians, in one way or another Christmas is kept.”
“The Bundists did not wait for the Messiah, nor did they plan to leave for Palestine. They believed that Poland was their country and they fought for a just, socialist Poland, in which each nationality would have its own cultural autonomy, and in which minorities' rights would be guaranteed.”

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