"The media can be an instrument of change. It can maintain the status quo and reflect the views of the society or it can awaken people and change minds. It depends on who's piloting the plane."

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Source : "Miss Representation: An Interview with Writer & Director Jennifer Siebel Newsom". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 20, 2011.

Katie Couric

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“A good novelist loves all of his characters, he lives in them, even in those who commit or must commit terrible acts.”
“I was never disappointed by the people I've admired. And the choices I made when I was in a position where it was do-or-die were made with my heroes in mind.”
“From the very beginningâ€” from the first moment, I may almost sayâ€” of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.”
“Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.”
“I want to work on some more complicated baking... and it would be interactive!”
“Faith and optimism are contagious.”

Source : Thom S. Rainer (2001). “Surprising Insights from the Unchurched and Proven Ways to Reach Them”, p.197, Harper Collins
“Watching National League pitchers trying to hit or even bunt is depressing.”
“Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.”

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