"The movie industry is failing women. And until the industry starts making serious changes, nothing is going to change."

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Source : "Women Directors Nearly Absent in 2013 Awards Season" by Robert Abele, variety.com. December 11, 2013.

Manohla Dargis

#Serious Quotes #Failing Quotes

“For years I have played the twenty-something lover.”
“I believe that if you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you will hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience. This is the sure way to win victories over inner defeat. It is the way a humble person meets life or death.”
“When you want to change things, you won't please everyone.”
“Fashion responds to the economic climate by providing a way to lift a womans spirits.”
“But the truth is, growing up in California, we knew nothing about hockey.”
“Those old hypocrites. They talk about killing witches but the Good Bookâ€™s full of magic. Turning the Nile to blood and parting the Red Sea. Whatâ€™s that if itâ€™s not good old-fashioned magic? Want a little water into wine? No trouble! How about raising the dead man Lazarus? Just say the word!”
“I don't think it's a good advert for any restaurant, a fat chef, and secondly, who wants to eat a dessert when the chef's a fat pig.”
“The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.”

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