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“It is still harder all around for women to get funding in business and film. There are only a very small group of female unicorns who have the power to tell stories on film. We need to have the courage to push back... all the effort is the work of bravery.”
Source : "Interview: Producer & CEO Julie Smolyansky, 2017 Women in Film Chicago Focus Awards Honoree". HollywoodChicago.com Interview, www.hollywoodchicago.com. February 21, 2017.
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“Starvation!" exclaimed the abbe, springing from his seat. "Why, the vilest animals are not suffered to die by such a death as that. The very dogs that wander houseless and homeless in the streets find some pitying hand to cast them a mouthful of bread; and that a man, a Christian, should be allowed to perish of hunger in the midst of other men who call themselves Christians, is too horrible for belief. Oh, it is impossible - utterly impossible!”
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“Cancer's life is a recapitulation of the body's life, its existence a pathological mirror of our own. Susan Sontag warned against overburdening an illness with metaphors. But this is not a metaphor. Down to their innate molecular core, cancer cells are hyperactive, survival-endowed, scrappy, fecund, inventive copies of ourselves.”
Source : Siddhartha Mukherjee (2011). “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer”, p.388, Simon and Schuster
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“Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.”
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“Art speaks its own language-soul to soul, heart to heart.”
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“One step at a time, I get to make positive choices to fulfill my dreams.”
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“Well I've never used that phrase before, but yes she is bootylicious.”
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“But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there.”