E. L. Doctorow Quotes
Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
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I think why I was attracted to making something with Vice is that level of intimacy that you get as the viewer, getting to see some of that production element where we don't exactly know what we're doing, where we're going, or even if it's a good idea.
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Many in Taiwan believe that Hu Jintao is much more sophisticated than his predecessors in understanding Taiwan. He represents a different generation of leaders, more pragmatic, less ideological.
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I love to see women who are comfortable in their skin and dress to suit their body - that looks fabulous because it's authentic.
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I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects.
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Think what evil creeps liberals would be if their plans to enfeeble the individual, exhaust the economy, impede the rule of law, and cripple national defense were guided by a coherent ideology instead of smug ignorance.
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In fact, many nations currently refuse to support embryonic stem cell research of any kind.
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In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.
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A country that does not fulfill its tasks in protecting the external borders has to cope with the consequences.
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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
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You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
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News has become entertainment. Once that happens, a whole series of horrific events start to happen, whether it's the lack of dissemination of something that can inform you or something that actually negatively impacts society.
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Unlike some, I don't claim to hold the mystic key to the future. But judging from past events, it seems to me that those who want to prophesy the imminent end of America's unique global role have a harder case to make than those who think we will limp on for a while, making a mess of things as usual.
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.
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Wal-mart... do they like make walls there?
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I just think Australia tends to make very good movies, so if someone hands me an Australian or an American film script I would guess the Australian film would be more intriguing.
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I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private.
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When I was young, I wanted to be a writer or painter. I was always writing stories, and I excelled at drawing. My teachers encouraged my art work. When I was 9 or 10, I began learning piano and started writing music.
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It's what happens in other major championships - I just lose my head a little bit.
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All of my films have been very dialogue-heavy, and that's great. It always makes it more of a challenge to market in other countries.
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It's the nature of the freelancer: you never know where you're going to be. You get great opportunities, and you miss great opportunities all the time.
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Those powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in the shadows, that's not moving toward the tent. And I am rather convinced that we have a generation that is so preoccupied with life in the shadows, they never even focus on getting to the sunlight where you open up the big tent.
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Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
