"There is no word in English for chic. Why should there be? Everything chic is by legend French. Perhaps everything chic is in reality French."

-- Elizabeth Hawes

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“History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols - boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs. Symbolic action on whatever scale - from the Montgomery Bus Boycott to wearing a simple wristband - is designed to disrupt our everyday complacency and force people to think.”

Source : "Highlighting the Plight of the Poor" by Hugh Evans, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2011.
“Today all sounds belong to a continuous field of possibilities lying within the comprehensive dominion of music. Behold the new orchestra: the sonic universe! And the musicians: anyone and anything that sounds!”

Source : R. Murray Schafer (1977). “The Tuning of the World”, Alfred A. Knopf
“Roll rocks down a ten-thousand-foot mountain, and they cannot be stopped - this is because of the mountain, not the rocks. Get people to fight with the courage to win every time, and the strong and the weak unite - this is because of the momentum, not the individuals.”
“What I would say to filmmakers, if I may be so bold or so arrogant, is to draw inspiration from other filmmakers, but go to the place in your own gut where everything is nothing. That's a very Zen thing to say, but that place of nothing is where real creativity comes out of.”

Source : "On a Bender". Interview with Stephen Rebello, movieline.com. March 1, 1998.
“Your creativity is waiting for you like a dancing partner.”
“So Israel won't be a democratic state, so what.”
“I appreciate simplicity, true beauty that lasts over time, and a little wit and eclecticism that make life more fun.”
“I'm interested in making films that ask questions and don't particularly provide answers.”

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