"Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that."

Power, Envy, Jealousy

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"Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that."

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"There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands."

Orison Swett Marden, American Writer

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"A stone thrown up into the air is bound to fall down, and absolute power is like a huge stone thrown up into the air."

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"People might say I'm difficult, but did you ever hear anyone describe a label as 'difficult'? By nature, artists should challenge. When they call you difficult, it is a reflection of the imbalance of power."

Michelle Shocked, American Musician

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"Influence can be the worst gun nowadays."

Alin Sav, Romanian Author

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"Power is the most persuasive rhetoric."

Friedrich Schiller, German Dramatist

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"The power to investigate is a great public trust."

Emanuel Celler, American Politician

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"He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die."

Cormac McCarthy, American Writer

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"I had the strangest feeling-like I had lost something without ever really having it in the first place-that i wasn't what I once was, and wasn't at all what I was meant to be."

Alexandra Bracken, American Writer

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"Every white man in this country has been raised with a false sense of power."

Roxanne Dunbar, American Historian

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"Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it. Is there a check in men, deep in them, that stops or punishes? There doesn't seem to be. The only punishment is for failure. In effect no crime is committed unless a criminal is caught."

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"When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process."

Thought

"I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It's my responsibility to find the research. It's my responsibility to digest it and do the best that I can with it. But at a certain point that responsibility will become an interpretation."

Research

"I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future."

Experience

"In any film there's always a historical implication."

Film

"I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take."

History

"I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling."

Emotional

"I study history in order to give an interpretation."

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"I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history."

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"One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that."

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