Jane Rosenthal Quotes
Our record-number of film submissions this year reflects the growing strength of the Festival. This year's program includes a wide range of talent and perspective from around the globe.
Quotes to Explore
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I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.
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When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.
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Conscience is God present in man.
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I think it's time we all agree that gender stereotypes are simply the confabulation of our own mind.
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There is an obvious connection, on the declining Roman empire's bread and circuses model, between political enthusiasm for public spectacles and the periods when we are least able to pay for them.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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I had no desire to be a chef, but I had a desire to be someone who was heard.
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During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.
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My job was to get a fair and open hearing to all ideas.
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And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.
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It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
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No, you will never see me on 'Dancing With the Stars.' Sorry.
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I have been involved with the USO really my entire life. The first show I did for the USO, I was nine years old.
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Growing up in inner-city Glasgow, it sometimes seemed to me money hadn't been invented.
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
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Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.
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I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
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The principle though remains the same, and the important thing is CBS fought hard, very hard, to protect that principle and will fight again.
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If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently.
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A lot of people think that to make it as a model you just need to be pretty and slim, but they're wrong. There's a lot of hard work involved. You have to be very focused, know what kind of work you're aiming for.
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The mechanisms of vis medicatrix naturæ—the most healing power of nature—are so effective that most diseases are self-terminating.
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As much as I moved to New York and tried to work in theater as much as I could - I developed a relationship with Circle Rep - make no mistake about it, I really, really wanted to be in a film. It seemed like almost everyone I knew at least did something in a movie, except me.
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Our record-number of film submissions this year reflects the growing strength of the Festival. This year's program includes a wide range of talent and perspective from around the globe.
