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Andrei Tarkovsky Film Director, Screenwriter
People

"Juxtaposing a person with an environment that is boundless, collating him with a countless number of people passing by close to him and far away, relating a person to the whole world, that is the meaning of cinema."

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Andy Warhol Artist, Filmmaker
People

"People sometimes say that the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually, it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like you're watching television -- you don't feel anything."

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Angus Wilson Novelist, Short Story Writer
People

"The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they've been at other times."

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"It would also be strange to find in the midst of a catalog of the rights of individuals a provision securing to the states the right to maintain a designated "Militia." Dispassionate scholarship suggests quite strongly that the right of the people to keep and bear arms meant just that."

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Assata Shakur Activist
People

"I think that the movement against the World Bank, against the globalization process that is happening, is very positive. We need a globalization, a globalization of people who are committed to social justice, to economic justice. We need a globalization of people who are committed to saving this earth, to making sure that the water is drinkable, that the air is breathable."

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"People have separated from each other with walls of concrete that blocked the roads to connection and love. and Nature has been defeated in the name of development."

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Walt Disney Animator, Film Producer
People

"Until a character becomes a personality it cannot be believed. Without personality, the character may do funny or interesting things, but unless people are able to identify themselves with the character, its actions will seem unreal. And without personality, a story cannot ring true to the audience."

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Walt Disney Animator, Film Producer
People

"We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year."

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Winston Churchill Politician, Writer, Historian
People

"People who are not prepared to do unpopular things and defy the clamor of the multitude are not fit to be ministers in time of difficulty."

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Saint Augustine Theologian, Philosopher
People

"What grace is meant to do is to help good people, not to escape their sufferings, but to bear them with a stout heart, with a fortitude that finds its strength in faith."

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