"It's such a rich experience when you enter into a subject from a documentary point of view. It's hard for fiction to compete with that."

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Source : Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. March 24, 2010.

Jonathan Demme

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“And we want to develop our strategy to partnership and friendship with the United States, which is connected with a very rich history but what is very important for our future.”
“Make yourself a "capacity" and I will make myself a "torrent."”
“Sometimes I wonder if, instead of falling madly in love, we should aspire to fall sanely in love. But then, what would be the point?”
“I'm not a drug person. I don't like drugs. I went to college in London, so it was kind of the curriculum there. I got it out of my system really young.”
“Some laborers have hard hands, and old sinners have brawny consciences.”
“As a matter of fact, nearly all the greatest work is being, and has always been done, by those who are following photography for the love of it, and not merely for financial reasons. As the name implies, an amateur is one who works for love.”

Source : Alfred Stieglitz, Richard Whelan, Sarah Greenough (2000). “Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes”
“By the time I came down from Yale, I was already more radicalized and had begun to read New Masses.”
“I shudder to think where we people of African descent would be without our allies in the international community. It's been our everything, quite frankly.”

Source : Source: politicalaffairs.net

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