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		There have been so few decent films involving Negroes that right away everybody expects every film to do everything. But when you make a flick, there are maybe two things you're trying to put into that flick. You can put the other things in another time.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Jim Brown 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		There's always a theme I'm drawn to, that we humans are not good or bad. We're all a mixture of both. We can have great compassion or commit great violence. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Gavin Hood 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Ferdinand Porsche 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I do, I kick major butt in 'Dredd.' I get to kill people. I break a guy's neck by roundhouse kicking him in the face. It was me, I did it. I learned how to roundhouse kick. I also do it with my hands cuffed behind my back so it's pretty cool I have to say. Yeah, leather body suit, blonde hair, the whole thing. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Olivia Thirlby 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		You are a dear soul who plays polo, and I am a poor Pole who plays solo. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Ignacy Jan Paderewski 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Laura Dern 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When it comes to the president, we have to respect him, we have to protect him, and we have to correct him. And in my career, since he'd been on the national stage at least, I've had - I've always respected the president. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Tavis Smiley 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		Art has to be a kind of confession. I don't mean a true confession in the sense of that dreary magazine. The effort it seems to me, is: if you can examine and face your life, you can discover the terms with which you are connected to other lives, and they can discover them, too - the terms with which they are connected to other people. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				James Baldwin 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Ursula K. Le Guin 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time where I felt those moments of conflict and delight that make you feel close to another person. But since I started touring there in 2004, I would always collaborate with local musicians, and that opened up a new level of intimacy. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Abigail Washburn 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Mayors of New York have been elected not because of their party label, but because of their philosophy and their approach overall, and that has been since time immemorial in New York, that people are not party-oriented in New York. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Joe Lhota 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Three trans women came up to me separately to tell me they had felt such a connection with Ava in 'Ex Machina' and her dream of finally coming to full female fruition. They had all cried; one said she was very emotional during the scene where Ava finally puts her skin on for the first time. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Alicia Vikander 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There have been so few decent films involving Negroes that right away everybody expects every film to do everything. But when you make a flick, there are maybe two things you're trying to put into that flick. You can put the other things in another time. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Jim Brown