"The road to the promised land runs past Sinai."

-- C. S. Lewis

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“I think I'm an ambitious artist but you have to understand the measure of your influence on people. You're not going to change people's lives with your art. What you do is you give them a little pat so that you change the course of the direction that they're going.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I did all the musicals in high school, and I loved it. And then I got to theater school at college, and was like, "No, I'm a serious actor. I want to do Shakespeare. I want to do classical theater." I took myself very seriously.”
“In some ways she was far more acute than Winston, and far less susceptible to Party propaganda. Once when he happened in some connection to mention the war against Eurasia, she startled him by saying casually that in her opinion the war was not happening. The rocket bombs which fell daily on London were probably fired by the Government of Oceania itself, "just to keep the people frightened."”
“My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.”
“It is not a word too much to say that the New Testament abounds with errors.”
“For a quick lap at the Nrburgring, you've probably experienced more in seven minutes...than most people have experienced in all their life in the way of fear, in the way of tension, in the way of animosity towards machinery and to a racetrack.”
“I love cooking. Not for myself alone. Cooking is about giving.”
“I have actually been very fortunate to be able to make films on my own credit card without having huge funders behind me dictating how the story should be told.”

Source : "15 Questions with Jehane Noujaim". Interview with Synne D. Chapman, www.thecrimson.com. May 14, 2008.

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