"I choose to work behind the camera. And I kind of want to make the work and then run away. The presentation of myself really feels complicated for me."

-- Zoe Leonard

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“Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again.”
“You think people hate a fat person? Try a fat person who's trying to get thin.”
“It's all about work when you reach up, tap in and step on that field. You don't mess around when you go through that gate.”
“I see only defects because I'm not following the scene as it were. I'm not following the other person. It's like the best thing to clarify this is the theater.”
“It's very rare to find a place where news itself has a political bent. Normally, let's say in the U.K. for instance, newspapers might explicitly support one party or the other, but television is just straight-up facts that are not influenced by any party from either side. In South Africa we try to maintain the same thing. Unfortunately, the government sometimes intervenes, but for the most part, the facts are the facts.”
“Courageous people feel the same fear everyone else does, they just decide to not be afraid anymore.”
“The common problem, yours, mine, everyone's Is ? not to fancy what were fair in life Provided it could be ? but, finding first What may be, then find how to make it fair Up to our means.”
“To contribute to the emergence of a society in which development will supplant stagnation, in which growth will take the place of decay, and in which culture will put an end to barbarism is the noblest, and, indeed, the only true function of intellectual endeavor.”

Source : "The Political Economy Of Growth" by Paul A. Baran, Ch. 8, (p. 300), 1957.

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