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James Ponsoldt

"This needs to work on that level, but it has the additional strain of it's going to be profoundly scrutinized by political junkies from the right and the left who will pick apart every little thing. We are inherently dramatizing Hillary Rodham, or Hillary Clinton, who's a very famous figure. There's a lot of biographies about her, but there's also elements that are private moments, that are dramatized with an arc, and we have to take creative license. Everything is sort of a cost-benefit."

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James Ponsoldt

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“The sleek, expensive girls I teach, Younger and pinker every year, Bloom gradually out of reach.”

Source : W. D. Snodgrass, “April Inventory”
“Man... is an inextricable tangle of culture and biology. And not being simple, he is not simply good; he has... a kind of hell within him from which rise everlastingly the impulses which threaten his civilization. He has the faculty of imagining for himself more in the way of pleasure and satisfaction than he can possibly achieve. Everything that he gains he pays for in more than equal coin; compromise and the compounding with defeat constitute his best way of getting through the world. His best qualities are the result of a struggle whose outcome is tragic. Yet he is a creature of love...”
“Learning, traveling and comparing the world, writing outraged poetry, producing revolutionary art, demonstrating, holding the older generation-including their own parents and grandparents, responsible for destroying this country, and finally aiming at building a just, kind and beautiful nation called 'Indonesia'. This is much better and glorious than sitting in Starbucks, staring like idiots at uniformed smart phones, and basically killing ones life... and the lives of others... for nothing.”
“The ecological principle of unity in diversity grades into a richly mediated social principle; hence my use of the term social ecology.”
“More times than not, it's a failed endeavor. You will fail more times than you succeed. But I think you need those failed endeavors.”
“The recurrence during the eighteenth century Enlightenment of the aspiration to be the 'Newton of the moral sciences' testifies to the prestige not just of celestial mechanics, but of the 'experimental method' more generally.”

Source : C. P. Snow, Stefan Collini (2012). “The Two Cultures”, p.10, Cambridge University Press
“Where are the real sources of human dignity, freedom and modern democracy, if not in the concept of infinity to which all men are equal?”
“How can you be so many women to so many strange people, oh you strange girl?”

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