Todd Haynes Quotes

Love stories require an obstacle between the lovers, something that keeps them from one another. You have to yearn for the love that can't be fulfilled. And it gets harder to conceive of viable cultural or racial or sexual obstacles between people as we move forward progressively.

Todd Haynes

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I loved playing Roberta Muldoon!

John Lithgow

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To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

John Ruskin

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I believe our foreign assistance should be scrutinized, should be debated, and that we should strike the right balance, but in all cases the foreign assistance that we provide around the world should be used to further our national security interests.

John Sununu

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I think the key divide between the interactive media and the narrative media is the difficulty in opening up an empathic pathway between the gamer and the character, as differentiated from the audience and the characters in a movie or a television show.

Steven Spielberg

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During the Cuban Missile Crisis, decisions made by President John F. Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev could have plunged both countries into thermonuclear war.

Ronald Kessler

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When I look at the list of my favorite works, writers who are women do tend to outnumber writers who are men for whatever reason.

Rumaan Alam

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Eventually we got to a point where 'Riverdale' came along, and it was a character that was originally written white, and I saw this as an opportunity to take a classic American character and make them Asian.

Ross Butler

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The Senate is allowed to work the way it was designed to - meaning a place where nothing is decided without a good dose of deliberation and debate, as well as input from both the majority and minority parties - it arrives at a result that is acceptable to people all along the political spectrum.

Mitch McConnell

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Films with a message just make me laugh.

Claude Chabrol

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There are a lot of bands using self-abuse as a marketing gimmick.

Bruce Dickinson

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In short, the animal and vegetable lines, diverging widely above, join below in a loop.

Asa Gray

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We're not all Christian, so we can't be a Christian band.

Winston Marshall

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