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You see artists hailed as a new generation of independents, only to be enlisted to leverage product.

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• When I was little it was a great time for film-making, with stuff like Mike Nichols' 'Silkwood.' The films you see in that pre-secondary-school stage stay with you in a very particular way.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Time
  • Great
  • School

• We've seen that there are a lot of people out there - teenagers in Topeka, housewives in Long Island, millionaire Internet start-up moguls - that all want to connect with each other about what it is to be human.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Different
  • You
  • Kind

• If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.

  

  Madeline Zima
  • People
  • Kind
  • Spirit

• A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • You
  • Artist
  • Yourself

• Imagine trying to be a gay actor, a gay anything in modern Russia? Where to be positively oneself, to be affectionate in public with someone you love of the same gender, or to talk of that love in the hearing of anyone under 18, will put you prison?

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Trying
  • Love
  • Gay

• There's something about wearing clothes that your great-grandmother might have thought were nice that makes you look older.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Great
  • Nice
  • Thought

• I think it's fine for girls to ask boys out. I actually prefer it.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Think
  • Ask
  • Actually

• You're always close and you never get that big romantic lead.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • You
  • Romantic
  • Lead

• I am not going to say much about the film 'Maidentrip,' but I won't be representing it, as I am not fully standing behind it.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • Film
  • Standing
  • Representing

• We're made up of energy, so who's to say you can't transmit through electrical means? If you could transmit yourself wirelessly, then it's Armageddon pretty much.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • You

• I think a failed state is the responsibility of the people who have made that state fail, and those are generally the people of that country.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • People
  • Country
  • Responsibility

• Because Mr. Mandela's early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy, the singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.

  

  Aberjhani
  • True
  • Nature
  • Lost

• When I got my band in 1983, I knew what I had to do. If I'm going to have a big band, they're going to have to sound equally as good as what I'm used to hearing.

  

  Illinois Jacquet
  • Good
  • Band
  • Sound

• Kerouac was the cowboy that inspired the whole Beat Generation, and highlighted and put the spotlight on all of these minds that didn't really know what they were doing at the time, but accomplished something much bigger than what they ever foresaw.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Time
  • Know
  • Inspired

• In Morocco, for a woman to earn her own living is the essential concern.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Woman
  • Living
  • Concern

• I did nine months in 'Mrs. Klein' in New York, then four months on the road. Then I did a movie directed by Philip Haas, who did 'Angels & Insects'. We shot 'The Blood Oranges' in Mexico for six weeks.

  

  Laila Robins
  • Movie
  • Road
  • New York

• If people don't like your act, it feels a little bit more like they don't like you as opposed to they didn't like that character... It's weird because on one hand, we make our living from being permeable and vulnerable, but we also have to have very thick skin.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • People
  • Character
  • Hand

• The Resurrection was the greatest ‘eucatastrophe’ possible in the greatest Fairy Story — and produces that essential emotion: Christian joy which produces tears because it is qualitatively so like sorrow, because it comes from those places where Joy and Sorrow are at one, reconciled, as selfishness and altruism are lost in Love.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Emotion
  • Sorrow
  • Resurrection

• I am not permitted to let my love be so merciful as to tolerate and endure false doctrine. When faith and doctrine are concerned and endangered, neither love nor patience are in order....when these are concerned, neither toleration nor mercy are in order, but only anger, dispute, and destruction - to be sure, only with the Word of God as our weapon.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Love
  • Patience
  • Doctrine

• When I look at Kickstarter, I see small businesses that have been funded by their customers. I see the acceleration of this shift away from the industrial manufacturing ideology to more of a maker economy. And I also see an idea so powerful that the company name has become a verb.

  

  Om Malik
  • Small
  • Powerful

• That's what makes death so hard--unsatisfied curiosity.

  

  Beryl Markham
  • Death
  • Curiosity

• I was attracted to things that combined art and science equally. I've always been equally interested in art design, science and engineering.

  

  Bran Ferren
  • Art
  • Science
  • Design

• You see artists hailed as a new generation of independents, only to be enlisted to leverage product.

  

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