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“What is dangerous is not minarets, but basements and garages that hide clandestine places of worship. Thus we must choose between mosques, where we know that the rules of the republic are respected, and secret places where extremism has been developing for too long,.”
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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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“Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.”
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“People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed.”
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“The weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness.”
Source : "Theeorie analytique des probabilites". Book by Pierre-Simon Laplace, 1812.
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“From birth to age 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35 she needs good looks. From 35 to 55 she needs a good personality. From 55 on, she needs good cash.”
Source : In Michael Freedland Sophie (1978) p. 214
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“Women can't travel light. We're in charge of the basic facts.”
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“If you have felt hopeless, hold on! Wonderful changes are going to happen in your life as you begin to live it on purpose.”
