Karyn Kusama Quotes
Polanski is a great example of a person whose personal life clearly has been just fraught with scandal and transgression and criminal acts. And yet, in 'Rosemary's Baby,' I think he's made one of the crowning feminist statements in film.

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Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
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I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
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After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.
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There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, 'look!'
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I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
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D.C. is where I started. That's home for me. I always love coming back to the area. They treat me so well, and people show up. They're excited and claim me as their own. I love it.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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I went to Moses Malone's golf tournament in Houston, and I've been hooked ever since.
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The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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We shouldn't judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.
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In the U.K., we're surrounded by American accents. Anything we watch in television. We have 'How I Met Your Mother' and all these other shows here, so it's not something that's really alien to us.
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It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life.
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Look at Gwyneth Paltrow and my favourite, Kate Winslet. No one ever says, 'Oh, she's making a comeback.' To my mind, I just went on maternity leave and reported back to work.
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We want to let people know that we can build solidarity with suffering folks so that they are not excluded, they are integrated.
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That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.
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If you live through the death of your child, you should be able to talk about it and let other people know it's OK to go on.
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Humans have spent (10k+) years learning to fight and debate with the other side, and almost no time learning to listen and empathize.
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Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied later Christians. He went around doing good and being compassionate.
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Polanski is a great example of a person whose personal life clearly has been just fraught with scandal and transgression and criminal acts. And yet, in 'Rosemary's Baby,' I think he's made one of the crowning feminist statements in film.