Todd Haynes Quotes

Films like 'The Godfather,' 'Chinatown' and 'The Exorcist' brought a realism and currency and understatement to their genres that we wanted for 'Mildred Pierce.'

Todd Haynes

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We need an attitude of defiance, not an attitude of cowardice. Out in the street, that's how we are winning against the TransCanada Pipeline. This is how we have delayed the Trans-Pacific Partnership and forced it into an election season, gotten everybody to stand against it. Democracy is not about surrender.

Jill Stein

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You can't tell what's going to fulfill you in different stages in your life.

Andrea Riseborough

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My ultimate joy and happiness is being a wife and mother.

Melissa Etheridge

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Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature.

Robert Redford

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Over the years, I've had a lot of different jobs - newspaper boy, dish washer, naval flight officer, Amtrak board member, Governor and chairman of the National Governors Association - just to name a few. But my most cherished job - and frankly my most important job for that matter - is being a father.

Tom Carper

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When you make a lot of money, it just means you made a lot of money. It doesn't make you a better person.

Martina Navratilova

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Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human.

Luis Barragan

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I don't like individual awards because this is a team sport, and the coaches try to promote the collective.

Julen Lopetegui

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The main thing for me now is figure skating, which I intend to devote more than one year.

Julia Lipnitskaya

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Part of the problem is that we have become so dependent upon this system that is killing and exploiting us, it has become almost impossible for us to imagine living outside of it, and it's very difficult physically for us to live outside of it.

Derrick Jensen

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I can't just sit around and do nothing. Although, I can sit on the couch sometimes and just watch movies.

Brian Austin Green

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People, when they buy a hat, they can't explain why they want to buy it or why they want it, but they do. It's like chocolate.

Philip Treacy

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