Kathleen Troia McFarland Quotes
Despite spending trillions of dollars and spilling the blood of thousands of Americans, we remain in servitude to Arab oil.
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The Sangh Parivar, against which I had been waging a war, misled the people. My opponents used the Election Commission and the bureaucracy to win a political battle.
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I like being involved with projects that are not only entertaining but are also thought provoking. Either that, or jobs that keep a roof over my head. A mixture of both is always nice.
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Self-respect, the value of 'face,' is universal but is most pronounced in China, then in Japan where the Confucian ethic is most influential.
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I'm all about small towns. I think it's a great place to grow up.
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I love doing kids' films.
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When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience.
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I wanted to work with Bryan Singer because I like his films.
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Many, many, many small moves of many kinds can bring a way to manage change. The theory can come later.
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It's a very tricky relationship, the cinematographer and the director as a woman.
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I decided to be a part of 'Bajrangi'... because I felt that it tells a very relevant story.
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We are lucky to have Manmohan Singh as our Prime Minister. We could not have done without a person and leader of the choice as Manmohan Singh, who gets all international attention.
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I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight o'clock the next morning I was up writing again.
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Eudora Welty's 'A Curtain of Green' had an enormous effect on me. But my early attempts to graft stories from the Deep South onto North of England provincialism were not successful. All were rejected.
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In a democracy, you have to find a market niche, make sure a novel is 'interesting' and 'spectacular.' That may be the toughest censorship of all.
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One of the privileges you have of living the life of an artist and creating your own world and everything is the fact that, in-between times, you can kind of spend them however you want. Because, you know, once you open up your candy store again, you're open for business. And you have to be responsible. You have to be available.
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For support, I fall back on my heart. Has a man any fault a woman cannot weave with and try to change into something better, if the god her man prays to is a mother holding a baby?
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When we read what Goethe says about men we are ashamed of what we have said; when we read what he says about painting and statues we are ashamed of what Goethe has said.
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Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
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Every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome.
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I have good days and bad days, but they aren't much different.
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Las Vegas is still socially sanctioned deviance. Its brand is just more comfortable to more Americans than it used to be.
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I feel really lucky to have had 'War and Peace' as my first big telly job. I was playing this incredible character, and we were shooting in Catherine the Great's palace near St. Petersburg in the winter, when the river was frozen. It was a dream. I still can't believe it. I wanted to soak up every last minute.
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Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.
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Despite spending trillions of dollars and spilling the blood of thousands of Americans, we remain in servitude to Arab oil.
