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COLSON WHITEHEAD A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative. That'... PATRICK NESS Did you ever notice the color of Mary Poppins' petticoats? They were kind of orange and apricot ... JULIE ANDREWS I think that Oakley in some respects does all its stuff by itself, ERIC BEDER I think music needs to be presented in a way so that kids can grasp songs, dances, simple music that... MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON I think I'm just proudest to be the lady who was asked to play Mary Poppins. She's such a wo... JULIE ANDREWS The most important film I made, in terms of its subject and the great responsibility I had as an act... CHRISTOPHER LEE I would also argue... that we are, by inclination and in terms of our history, we are small 'l... DALTON MCGUINTY I grew up singing since the age of three. Vocally trained since the age of eight. Fascinated by Mary... NIKKI BLONSKY Nothing I had written before 'Mary Poppins' had anything to do with children, and I have alw... P. L. TRAVERS I get little kids who recognize me from 'Mary Poppins,' and it just delights me because it... DICK VAN DYKE I hate being good. -Mary Poppins P.L. TRAVERS I'd love to work with Julia Roberts and Johnny Depp or Dick Van Dyke. I love 'Mary Poppins... WILLA HOLLAND It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON 'How to Survive a Plague' is history-telling at its best. It's a film I'll show my t... IRA SACHS I believe a democracy needs men and women of conviction in its positions of leadership in order for ... R. J. CUTLER I never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up. ANITA DIAMENT When I did 'The Sound of Music' and 'Mary Poppins' and 'The Americanization of E... JULIE ANDREWS 'Bad Taste' was - it was, in many respects, my sort of, my, I guess, my single-minded desire... PETER JACKSON I'm not cross about the idea of baptism; I just think the idea that when a child is born it is i... HOZIER Where people are now in terms of the economic crisis, they're looking at what we think is the bo... EMILIO ESTEVEZ I think one of the themes that he emphasized in many ways ... was that we need to spend time reflect... DENNIS JACOBS I've seen the odd tarot reader and had my palm read in various countries and explained to me in ... SIMON BAKER But I think the thing I'm proud of about the film is that there aren't many films - either i... PATRICK MARBER It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON I think there's a lot of serious implications people don't understand. People take for granted the m... ANN DEGROOT In terms of doing another franchise after 'Transformers,' I don't know if that would be ... JACK REYNOR Having a Mary Poppins-themed birthday party when I was 5 - all my friends went in dresses, and I wen... POPPY DELEVINGNE I believe in blues, and I believe that it's been misrepresented. JOHN MAYER Warren Beatty is a great director. I wish Warren would direct another film right now, because I'... WILLIAM FORSYTHE Usually, you lose interest in a story beyond a certain point. But with 'Highway,' there was ... IMTIAZ ALI I think film writing, you're thinking in pictures, and stage writing, you're thinking in dia... ZOE KAZAN I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not ... HENRY ADAMS Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. I realized that I'm a soft person. I think I'm sensitive. I wanted very much to be tough and... RACHAEL TAYLOR I cannot believe that 'Pinocchio' is over yet, and I always think about so many great memori... PARK SHIN-HYE I do think that many Americans have a limited view of what constitutes Japanese cartooning based on ... ADRIAN TOMINE As an artist, there's so many categories that you're put into, that there are so many things... CARMEN EJOGO I literally cannot remember a time when I was not asking myself what events in 'Star Wars' w... CLAUDIA GRAY It is a brave new world, one that I do not think most Canadians, when they fully understand its impl... STOCKWELL DAY I really liked the script of 'Alone.' I thought there were a lot unexpected things in the fi... KARAN SINGH GROVER In the history of photography, we have many masterpieces in terms of black and white books. You have... RALPH GIBSON Indian cinema needs all ingredients like emotion, action, sentiment and humour; it's not easy. I... PAWAN KALYAN The rare opportunity of writing music for a movie about the making of 'Mary Poppins' was imp... THOMAS NEWMAN I cannot believe that violence depicted onscreen actually causes people to act out violently. That... PARK CHAN-WOOK I think 'Two Towers' is a completely distinct film from 'Fellowship of the Ring' or ... HOWARD SHORE There are those who believe that the value of a children's book can be measured only in terms of... BARBARA PARK I played football the whole time I was growing up, and through two years of college. I think it'... PETER LANDESMAN I really think that 'Christine' is one in a million in terms of independent or studio. REBECCA HALL All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to unde... ABDURRAHMAN WAHID I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be const... IAN MCEWAN At first, 'Family Ties' seemed to just be a wonderful project of its time. These were the Re... MICHAEL GROSS I wasn't ever a bad guy, and I was never arrested or anything like that, but I was a wild boy in... DAVID CASSIDY The most irritating movie character for me was that cradle-to-grave commie, Mary Poppins. ANN COULTER 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' was a movie that I repeatedly turned down. The movie's produce... DICK VAN DYKE In a way, film and television are in the same sort of traumatic trance that print journalism is. The... TONY KUSHNER I think, first of all, I don't think people understand Ice Cube's body of work. Ice Cube is ... KEVIN HART I am now sixty-seven. [ALMOST thirty-one :P] To bring my voyage to a happy conclusion, I would have ... FILOZOF I KRYSIA I don't distinguish between men and women. This is irrelevant to me, and I don't think in th... ADA YONATH You know honestly I think there's a Dracula, a Wolf Man, and a Frankenstein's Monster in all... RICHARD ROXBURGH Harper understands, but I think the West does need to understand the East better. And I think that t... MIKE HARRIS I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be o... STEPHEN FRY Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of '... CHARLES IVES The Horny Toad in Cave Creek has great food. When I'm in Arizona, I have at least one meal there... DICK VAN DYKE Think of a pitch in terms of advertising: You're trying to hook a reader the way a commercial tr... DAVID MACINNIS GILL I look at actors like Johnny Depp, Sean Penn, and Benicio Del Toro, and they play all these differen... EFREN RAMIREZ The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY In terms of being vulgar, I don't think you need to be violent unless it's slapstick, violen... ANDY DICK Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH I think, as a filmmaker, it's important to be honest with yourself at all times in terms of what... 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CHASE What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not? SALMON P. CHASE The President then proceeded to read his Emancipation Proclamation, making remarks on the several pa... SALMON P. CHASE All men are born equally free. SALMON P. CHASE Once I should have been, if not satisfied, partially, at least, contented with suffrage for the inte... SALMON P. CHASE What you have said, Mr. President, fully satisfies me that you have given to every proposition which... SALMON P. CHASE The Proclamation does not, indeed, mark out exactly the course I should myself prefer. But I am read... SALMON P. CHASE The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot... SALMON P. CHASE Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the wor... SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is. SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world. SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants. SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON It was this society and culture that among other things - including economic opportunities here and ... SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON They weren't immigrating to some existing society; indeed, they often did whatever they could do... SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at... SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON We also thought of ourselves in racial and largely ethnic terms. SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON Total falsehoods can be easily exposed for what they are by citing exceptions to their claims. Hence... SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON The West hasn't reached its universal state as yet, although its close to it, but it certainly h... SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON Immigrants are people who leave one country, one society, and move to another society. But there has... SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON And so in terms of territorial control, in terms of economic preeminence, the western share of the g... SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON Finally, in my critique of the immigration image of America, it is also important to know that we... SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of imm... SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON Mexican immigration poses challenges to our policies and to our identity in a way nothing else has i... SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the... SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON I think clearly the United States, as well as other western nations, should stand by their commitmen... SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis ... SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods. SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot. TARAJI P. HENSON I feel like we all have our skeletons. TARAJI P. HENSON I just like when I work with people that are professional and good. TARAJI P. HENSON With TV, the pace is so fast, the scripts are coming at you, the directors are firing things at you,... TARAJI P. HENSON I love the art of acting, so I don't care if I'm in a movie with 10 people, two people, or b... TARAJI P. HENSON I would love to do a biopic of a famous singer, like Diana Ross or Donna Summer, or an old jazz stor... TARAJI P. HENSON When I come home, it's about my kid, who needs to eat, needs to do homework, and needs to get to... TARAJI P. HENSON Date a woman with children only if you are ready to man up, because it's a position that comes w... TARAJI P. HENSON I'm nothing without God. TARAJI P. HENSON Acting for me is very therapeutic. It's my shrink. TARAJI P. 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