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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Today, not to take away from any of the present artists, but music has gotten a little shallow, in my opinion. Everybody's talking about the same thing: sex, money, clothes, cheating... I want to open up not necessarily better conversations, but, in my opinion, more important ones, and touch on things that are actually going on.
La'Porsha Renae
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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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Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men.
Adam Ferguson
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We've sent a man to the moon and that's 29,000 miles away. The center of the Earth is only 4,000 miles away. You could drive that in a week but for some reason nobody's ever done it.
Andy Rooney
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The Romans had been able to post their laws on boards in public places, confidant that enough literate people existed to read them; far into the Middle Ages, even kings remained illiterate.
J. M. Roberts
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My view of life is, 'If you're going to miss Heaven, why miss it by two inches? Miss it!
Sam Kinison
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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