Gary Ross Quotes
This movie is about the fact that personal repression gives rise to larger political oppression.… That when we're afraid of certain things in ourselves or we're afraid of change, we project those fears on to other things, and a lot of very ugly social situations can develop.
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The issues that we face as a country and in South Florida aren't broken down by city line or county line.
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Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
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People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Eighty per cent of my output is 'Mallory clowns on the Western canon,' and I'm happy to be that person.
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I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved who I am not. Even if you're not accepted, at least you are still yourself.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
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I just sort of go along and say what I think -and that's all you can do in life, really.
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Vulnerable young women are being brainwashed by the radical lies of ISIS militants in the Middle East.
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I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh.
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I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.
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With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still young and can have the bright future they deserve.
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Killers can seem smart when you can't figure out who they are.
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Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
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I've been a bit of an electronics enthusiast and maker for a long time. I actually started the forum called ModRetro. It's an electronics enthusiast community that focuses on modifying vintage game consoles, and it's actually one of the larger game console modification forums on the Internet.
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I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.
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One of my favorite vacation places is Miami, because of the people, the water and the beach - of course - and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful.
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Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.
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You've got to be closer to the edge than ever to win. That means sometimes you go over the edge, and I don't mean driving, either.
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We're a nation of celebrity and hero worshipers, so much so that we make heroes out of those who aren't, such as John Wayne: a patriotic, red-blooded, two-fisted American who spent the Second World War in the trenches on the movie lots of Hollywood.
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I love playing the vamp, and I get sent out for a lot of that stuff, maybe because I do it well.
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I used to get made fun of a lot for being a male dancer, especially growing up in Boston. Kids are terrible, they don't realize how heavy words can be.
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This movie is about the fact that personal repression gives rise to larger political oppression.… That when we're afraid of certain things in ourselves or we're afraid of change, we project those fears on to other things, and a lot of very ugly social situations can develop.
