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“Each man is contained and constrained, on entering social life, to fit his own life in, just as he fits his words and thoughts into a language that was formed without and before him and which is impervious to his power. Entering the game, as it were, whether of belonging to a nation or of using a language, a man enters arrangements which it does not fall to him to determine, but only to learn and respect the rules.”
Source : "The Undoing of Thought". Book by Alain Finkielkraut, 1988.
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“Make the important interesting.”
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“I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.”
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“By in large in this country the issue of gay rights and equality should be past the point of debate. Really, there should be no debate anymore.”
Source : "“Why I Support the National Equality March”: NFL’s Scott Fujita Speaks Out for Gay Rights". Interview with Dave Zirin, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.
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“Never go to war unless your willing to win.”
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“I love test screenings. Some directors don't, I know. But I love it. I think it's because I come from the theatre and in the theatre, previews are where you really have to listen to the audience and really feel how they're responding. I found our test screenings incredibly useful.”
Source : "Director Stephen Daldry Talks EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE and THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY Miniseries". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. January 17, 2012.
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“It is a curious thing, but I have been right in everything I have done and said in my life.”
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“The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow.”
Source : Claudia Rankine (2014). “Citizen: An American Lyric”, p.65, Macmillan