"Miyazaki's films in Japan are bigger than Titanic. He's an incredible rock star there. In the US, they don't do as well."

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Source : "Director Henry Selick Comic-Con Interview – Talks CORALINE and Next Project". Collider Interview, collider.com. July 25, 2009.

Henry Selick

#Stars Quotes #Japan Quotes #Rocks Quotes

“It is bitter to think of one's best years disappearing in this unpolished country.”
“Boredom comes simply from ignorance and lack of imagination.”

Source : Susan Ertz (1943). “Anger in the Sky: A Novel”
“Up in this air you breathed easily, drawing in a vital assurance and lightness of heart. In the highlands you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be.”
“We're still expected to color within the lines of accepted femininity, and women who step out of those lines are usually attacked, whether verbally or physically.”
“Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?”

Source : Nicholson Baker (2007). “Vintage Baker”, p.86, Vintage
“I've never wanted to be a star, never.”

Source : "Renewed Love for Symbol of New Wave" by Maia de la Baume, www.nytimes.com. January 1, 2013.
“Praise Him, each savage furious beast That on His stores do daily feast; And you tame slaves, of the laborious plough, Your weary knees to your Creator bow.”
“We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures. We succeeded because the time was right and the news media cooperated. We sensationalized the effects of illegal abortions, and fabricated polls which indicated that 85 percent of the public favored unrestricted abortion, when we knew it was only 5 percent. We unashamedly lied, and yet our statements were quoted [by the media] as though they had been written in law.”

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