"When we talk about Oscars, it's almost as a symbol of excellence, and the American public and the worldwide public accept that symbol."

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Source : "Harvey Weinstein On Hollywood's Heated Oscar Race". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.wbaa.org. December 2, 2011.

Harvey Weinstein

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“I'm a middle child, and I'm pretty diplomatic: the peace-maker.”
“It doesn't matter whether the bride or the bridegroom writes the letters of thanks for wedding presents provided that these go out immediately after the arrival of each present and are not in the handwriting of the bride's mother.”
“Ridiculous modes, invented by ignorance, and adopted by folly.”

Source : Tobias Smollett (1806). “Adventures of an Atom. Expedition of Humphrey Clinker”, p.363
“The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.”
“[Gambling] is a perfidious passion. ... It is bad for one to win, and bad not to win. ... it ends by setting your blood on fire, and to increase your chances of winning at any cost, your stakes increase frightfully; the desire of winning gets to be a madness. The soul gets sick; it neither sees nor hears anything. No family ties, position, nor fortune, can stand against this passion.”
“There is a huge amount of shame connected to the feeling of not being loved, because love and family, biological or not, confirms our existence. Everyone needs to be seen, accepted and loved.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“I think in America, especially today, our relationship to war is incredible distant. Yet narratives of war have such a primal power in this culture. They mainline directly into a whole series of emotional reactions and understandings of American patriotism, masculinity, and all of these other things.”
“Since coming to Harwell I have met English people of all kinds, and I have come to see in many of them a deep rooted firmness which enables them to lead a decent way of life.”

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