"The bigger question to ask about 300 is why, for a supposedly rousing tale of heroism, it's so curiously unaffecting."

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Source : Review of 300, Salon.com, 2007.

Stephanie Zacharek

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“The capacity to innovate - the ability to solve problems creatively or bring new possibilities to life - and skills like critical thinking, communication and collaboration are far more important than academic knowledge.”
“Post-â€‹wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language spoken in several dialects: sarcastic, jaded, opaque; cool and clever. They guard against those moments when melodrama or self-â€‹pity might split their careful seams of intellect, expose the shame of self-â€‹absorption without self-â€‹awareness.”
“There comes a time in every man's life when he must make way for an older man.”
“It was not cool to be that fun, bubbly kid, so I would just go off on my own and sing and make up songs, and that's how I think I developed into the kind of artist and writer that I am.”

Source : "Elle Varner Was Never 'the Pretty Girl' Before Perfectly Imperfect" by Rebecca Thomas, www.mtv.com. August 14, 2012.
“You mean one human is good, but a hundred humans is bad?" "Exactly. One human is just a person. A hundred humans make a society. And societies have kings, and religions and priests, and all these other things serrin completely fail to understand”

Source : Joel Shepherd (2011). “Petrodor”, p.117, ReadHowYouWant.com
“I would go back in time and do differently it is that. I would go back and ask, 'Why?' But I never did. I got up, he got up, we went on about our day. We never discussed the situation [with Dre]. Just, never.”
“It's okay to have personal ambitions, but you have to take someone with you.”
“Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.”

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