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Brilliant documentaries are about so much more than their subject.

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• Some women think that if the look this season is minis, they have to wear minis. If you don't have great legs, there are plenty of alternatives.

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • Great
  • Women
  • Look

• I don't think many people consider in their heart that they have two places that are home.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Heart
  • Home

• As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes and in the face and in the most subtle responses of a performer when I'm more than a few rows back. I find it very frustrating.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Eyes
  • Find
  • Face

• I've ended up becoming my mother in some respects, despite my eight years of analysis!

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Years

• Homosexuals are riding high in the media.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • High
  • Media
  • Riding

• I know a lot of people who use the Internet really wisely. It enriches their lives in some way.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • People
  • Know
  • Internet

• I sometimes find reality far more fantastical and unlikely than what I could just make up.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Up
  • Reality
  • Sometimes

• You have to take control of your own life, your own destiny, and your own careers. You can't leave everything up to someone else, 'cause then you can look at them and blame them.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Control

• In Mexico, audiences want to see a big discussion around a film - what we expect from Hollywood films worldwide is more of an entertaining show. 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' was a road movie and comedy, but it had a very strong political connotation that sparked a discussion in Mexico that is still going on.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Movie
  • Political
  • Strong

• I don't want to argue with my wife about her car - or my driving.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Want
  • Wife
  • Car

• Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Writing
  • Night
  • Driving

• If you must get rid of a roach, use mechanical control.

  

  Carl Olson
  • You
  • Control
  • Mechanical

• The whole concept of 'grounding' children is utterly stupid - they just go off and rebel and don't like you. When my kids eventually come along, I don't want them to not like me.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Me

• I like writers who can show me worlds I know nothing about, but my favorites are those who create characters or worlds which feel realistic and familiar to me, or who can make me feel inspired.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Know
  • Me
  • Feel

• When I was growing up, I thought I was getting bored of acting, so I left that. Then after a few years, I started missing it. I left my studies mid-way, and I used to give lots of auditions.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Thought

• Over the years, we settled into American life and embraced it fully. But having come from a different culture, I didn't know the boundaries of American culture. Which is that, as a girl, you didn't play football or soccer at lunch with the boys, and to be cool, you didn't get into math Olympiad.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Life
  • Different
  • American

• Not all Muslims wish to express themselves in public through a communal religious identity. Identities are multiple, and some may wish to speak instead just as citizens in their professional capacity, through their political party, or their neighborhood body.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • May
  • Political
  • Wish

• I have loved to cook since I was a child in my mother's kitchen. If I don't have time to cook, I'll just read a cookbook.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Child

• You have to carry so many archetypes as an actor, especially as a blonde-haired, blue-eyed one.

  

  Kristin Lehman
  • Blue
  • Blonde

• Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever,- One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Feet
  • Constant

• Silicon Valley's involvement with Washington dates from one event, which was John Scully - who was the CEO of Apple - had dinner with President Clinton and Vice President Gore in 1993. And we're all going, like, 'What's going on? Why would we have dinner with the president?'

  

  Eric Schmidt
  • Why

• It was a big disappointment for us, ... We talked long and hard about it. It's been a real concern. It's a problem, and we've got to get it corrected.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Long
  • Real
  • Problem

• Brilliant documentaries are about so much more than their subject.

  

  Gemma Whelan