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“It must always be remembered that you can never do right until you are first free to do wrong; since the doing of a thing under compulsion is evidence neither of good nor bad intent; and if under compulsion, who shall decide what would be the substituted rule of action under full freedom?”
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“But I try to steal other moments. Sometimes I get up very early in the morning and enjoy a quiet house and cup of tea before the craziness begins. Other times, I'll take a quick walk on the beach. You can find peace in a few minutes.”
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“When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me”
Source : "Ang Lee and James Schamus". Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2000.
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“We agreed that we cannot let personal political attacks get in the way of doing the very best we can for California's children”
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“No two people will ever see or feel things in the same way, Merry. The challenge is to be truthful when you write. Don't approximate. Don't settle for the easiest combination of words. Go searching instead for those that explain exactly what you think. What you feel.”
Source : Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.229, Simon and Schuster
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“Every day at some point I encounter some sort of anti-American feeling.”
Source : "Anti-Americanism: Comparative perspectives". Book by Brendon O'Connor, Martin Griffiths, 2007.
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“For years Don Imus was just - boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt.”
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“Some of my pictures are poem-like in the sense that they are very condensed, haiku-lik. There are others that, if they were poetry, would be more like Ezra Pound. There is a lot of information in most of my pictures, but not the kind of information you see in documentary photography. There is emotional information in my photographs.”