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.
Ira Sachs
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When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.
Umberto Eco
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Conscience is God present in man.
Victor Hugo
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I think it's time we all agree that gender stereotypes are simply the confabulation of our own mind.
Naveen Jain
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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.
Iain Sinclair
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
Samuel L. Jackson
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I had no desire to be a chef, but I had a desire to be someone who was heard.
Eddie Huang
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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.
Laini Taylor
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My job was to get a fair and open hearing to all ideas.
Dan Webster
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And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.
Irving Langmuir
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It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
Salman Rushdie
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No, you will never see me on 'Dancing With the Stars.' Sorry.
Mara Wilson
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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.
Wayne Newton
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Growing up in inner-city Glasgow, it sometimes seemed to me money hadn't been invented.
Jack Bruce Cream
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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.
Patrick Dempsey
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I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
Tamora Pierce
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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.
Floyd Abrams
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Of course we don't want the price of gasoline to go up, we want it to go down.
Steven Chu
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I am always excited about playing in front of live audiences because I really enjoy it, for the most part.
Valerie June
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I keep encouraging the pharmaceutical companies to put more money into R&D.
Harold E. Varmus
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A film can be big or small - I have to just fall in love with it. To connect with the character, the script, and the director. Sometimes they say to you, 'You should do that for your career; it's a big thing, people will go and see it,' but I wouldn't be able to, because my heart wouldn't be in it. I would drive people quite mad.
Eva Green
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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.
Jane Rosenthal