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"Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema."
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"Foreign capital to build new cinemas will help modernize China's aging cinema infrastructure, attract Chinese consumers back into cinemas, and increase demand for U.S. films."

"Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either."

"I put it to the great man [Hitchcock], the key to fictitious terror is partition or containment: so long as the Bates Motel is sealed off from our world, we want to peer in, like at a scorpion enclosure. But a film that shows the world is a Bates Motel, well, that's... the stuff of Buchloe, dystopia, depression. We'll dip our toes in a predatory, amoral, godless unive3rse, but only our toes."

"There's still a 1950s view of cinema, that there's one audience and they all want to see the same thing."
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"I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette."

"I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me."

"We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged."

"My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor."

"The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!"

"I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't."
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