"My argument has always been that this is not an anti-Bush film, it's a pro-democracy film. And if Bush comes out on the wrong side of democracy, that's his problem."

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

John Sayles

#Democracy Quotes #Sides Quotes #Argument Quotes

“You have such a huge career ... behind you.”
“Notes and chords have become my second language and, more often than not, that vocabulary expresses what I feel when language fails me.”

Source : "Slash". Book by Slash and Anthony Bozza, p. 29, 2007.
“It's a sort of patronizing idea that literature for children has to feature role models of exemplary behavior. I think not only is that bogus, but it leads to really boring books.”

Source : "Mac Barnett & Jory John Talk with Roger". Interview with Roger Sutton, www.hbook.com. February 3, 2015.
“If I don't work, I'll be sitting on the couch watching TV, eating popcorn and getting like a cow.”
“There's a lot of bleeding idiots in t'country and they deserve some representation.”
“You can't get all of your news from Jon Stewart, especially since it's a comedy show.”
“Your words become the mirror in which others see themselves.”
“But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memory the things that vanish, that are taken away. We fix them in our minds forever by yearning, by pain, by crying out. Pain, the pain that seems unbearable at the time, is memory's first imprinting step, the cornerstone of the temple we erect inside us in memory of the dead. Pain is part of memory, and memory is a God-given gift.”

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