Alanis Obomsawin Quotes
Racism and prejudice exist there at the National Film Board like anywhere else. My history at the Board has not been easy. It's been a long walk.
Alanis Obomsawin
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I've seen people glaze over when they're confronted with racism, and there's nothing more, you know, damning and demeaning to having any kind of ideology than people just walking the walk and saying what they're supposed to say and nodding, and nobody feels anything.
Kara Walker
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Beautiful film music can be made relevant to any period.
A. R. Rahman
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The norm is white, apparently, in the view of people who see things in that way. For them, the only reason you would introduce a black character is to introduce this kind of abnormality. Usually, it's because you're telling a story about racism or at least about race.
Octavia E. Butler
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I've done a lot of TV, but not film.
Manny Montana
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To me the earth's most explosive and pernicious evil is racism, the inability of God's creatures to live as One, especially in the Western world.
Malcolm X
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If someone had told us in 1945 that in our lifetime religious wars would rage on virtually every continent, that thousands of children would once again be dying of starvation, we would not have believed it. Or that racism and fanaticism would flourish once again, we would not have believed it.
Elie Wiesel
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Because it started as an offshoot of al Qaeda in Iraq, ISIL has long been subject to U.N. sanctions, and all countries have a legal obligation to freeze its assets and prohibit its business dealings. But countries around the world need to do more to make these sanctions work.
Samantha Power
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Like a lot of women, I'm bisexual. Once I have sex with you - bye!
Carol Leifer
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There's book smart, there is street smart, there's relationship smart, there's too many different kinds of smarts to know all of them. Everybody doesn't know every kind of smart. There's money smart, there's movie smart, there's computer smart. There's just too many different kinds of smarts for people to know all the smarts.
J. B. Smoove
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I took a lot of time to open myself up to taking chances musically.
Gavin DeGraw
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'MyMusic' is a great showcase of what we can do as creators on a modest budget when we're given the opportunity to put together a television-sized project, and hopefully, whether it's 'MyMusic' making that transition to television or having something sprout off from it, it's an exciting time to be a creator.
Benny Fine
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Racism and prejudice exist there at the National Film Board like anywhere else. My history at the Board has not been easy. It's been a long walk.
Alanis Obomsawin
