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		We're being subject to incredible amounts of surveillance, the police are taking on draconian powers and violating our rights. I think this attempt to protect ourselves is ultimately going to founder because people don't like living inside prisons.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Mohsin Hamid 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I think there is an enormous sea change happening in the global workforce. It has a lot to do with globalization. I think that people used to have a hope for a career or meaningful employment, and its been reduced to internships, part-time work or just grossly underpaid work. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Dan Gilroy 
			 
			
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		I think the most successful are the most paranoid. The first thing people do when they buy a mansion is they build the biggest wall you could possibly build around it. What happens is, now you become a target. If I go into the hood, I'm at a disadvantage. They could carry guns. I can't. They can hit me in the face. I can't. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Ice T 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Walter Lippmann 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I love doing impressions of politicians because the task is always to imagine the private lives of these people whose job it is to project an image of staunch, unflinching leadership and grace, and that's just not how human beings, in their heart of hearts, work. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Kate McKinnon 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If there are negative people around me, I just try to distance myself from that. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Zach LaVine 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm so sick of people misunderstanding Asians in America and what we're about. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Eddie Huang 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
		
	
	
	
	
		I think it will bring back discussion about Columbine. When Columbine happened it was the topic of the week, and we shouldn't have just moved on to something else. Whether people like the film or not, it's going to make them think about what happened. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				John Robinson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We’re neither good nor evil. We’re simply interested in things as they are. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Lloyd Alexander 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Characters have to make sacrifices. To really, really feel the true emotion and the hero's journey, they have to go through trials, and those trials could cost them something. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Joe Russo 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I was really, really stagnating and getting bored in the steady work of television and didn't really know what movies I would be making that Hollywood would be making, and then I went on to 'Game of Thrones,' and it was just like, everything I've been waiting to do was handed to me by really nice people. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Alex Graves 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Well, when I was a young writer the people we read were Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Sartre, Camus, Celine, Malraux. And to begin with, I was a bit of a copycat writer and very derivative and tried to write a novel using their voices, really.... I keep it out of print. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Mordecai Richler 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We're being subject to incredible amounts of surveillance, the police are taking on draconian powers and violating our rights. I think this attempt to protect ourselves is ultimately going to founder because people don't like living inside prisons. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Mohsin Hamid