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I am blessed to live and work in France, a country where women filmmakers are by and large not unfairly treated. So I wouldn't have much to contribute regarding issues faced as a female director.

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• My parents never understood why I didn't want to be a doctor or lawyer. They're Cuban immigrants who wanted to give their children the American dream, and, to them, that was more of what 'the dream' entailed.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Children
  • Why
  • American

• The image of the unions is still not in tune with where we actually are, which is fifty-fifty men and women, with an increasing number of women at the top. I think it is changing, but I'm not complacent about this.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Men
  • Women
  • Think

• To wait for hours to buy a train ticket or to see a doctor is accepted as a normal way of doing things. Privacy is not a great preoccupation, and this is a very crowded country.

  

  Nancy Travis
  • Great
  • Country
  • Train

• For the last 12 years, I've felt really privileged to be living such a normal life. It's so a part of who I am.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Life
  • Living
  • Privileged

• Friend of mine, a smart journalist, had his iPad stolen. He couldn't help that - the thief broke into his house. But his private, personal data wasn't stolen, exactly. Donated, more like. He had no passcode set on the iPad.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Help
  • House
  • Friend

• 'Mad Men' is the greatest example of a perfect cast uniting with a perfect group of writers and creators to create a show that is bold, brutal, and brilliant.

  

  Rachel G. Fox
  • Men
  • Perfect
  • Mad

• Sometimes, violent details have been eliminated from fairy tales simply because they were deemed too graphic. So one does not, at the end of Disney's version of 'Cinderella,' see the stepsisters' eyes get pecked and pecked by doves, because Disney wanted to market the story for wholesome family viewing.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Family
  • Eyes
  • End

• I don't like violence.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Like
  • Violence

• The best way of removing negativity is to laugh and be joyous.

  

  David Icke
  • Negativity

• It's not because I'm bitter or because I don't agree with him politically. I've always been a registered Republican. But it's bad taste to talk about ex-husbands and ex-wives, that's all. Also, I don't know a damn thing about politics.

  

  Jane Wyman
  • Bad
  • Wife
  • Bitter

• I wouldn't mind being in one place for two months or so. It really doesn't sound so bad!

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Mind
  • Bad
  • Place

• The prison was very important - as everywhere on earth. Everywhere the building of a prison is the first step in the organization of a civilized state.

  

  B. Traven
  • Important
  • Earth
  • Organization

• Get out, realize your dream, and go for it

  

  Kai Greene
  • Dream
  • Realizing
  • Your Dreams

• What matters is how well we have loved, and what small part we have played in making the lives around us better.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Small

• The only resolution is for the aspirations of both sides to be met through two states, where Israelis and Palestinians each live in peace and security. ... Israelis must acknowledge that just as Israel's right to exist cannot be denied, neither can Palestine's. The United States does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Live
  • Peace

• There aren't a lot of situations where I look back and I say, The decision I actually made or the course we actually pursued was the wrong course.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Decision
  • Looks
  • Made

• I have three women in the house. I get to be wrong three times a day.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Women
  • House
  • Times

• The days are usually filled with nonsense and every now and again somebody flies by the circus to party on your dime.

  

  Ian Astbury The Cult
  • Party
  • Circus
  • Dimes

• Don't turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That's where the light enters you.

  

  Rumi
  • Light
  • Keep
  • Gaze

• A fight is going on inside me," said an old man to his son. "It is a terrible fight between two wolves. One wolf is evil. He is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other wolf is good. he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The same fight is going on inside you." The son thought about it for a minute and then asked, "Which wolf will win?" The old man replied simply, "The one you feed.

  

  Wendy Mass
  • Love
  • Fighting
  • Winning

• I am blessed to live and work in France, a country where women filmmakers are by and large not unfairly treated. So I wouldn't have much to contribute regarding issues faced as a female director.

  

  Anne Fontaine
  • Issues
  • Filmmakers
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