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"If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force."
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"I always had this non-stop drive. I had to keep sending stories out and every once in awhile I'd get something accepted or get the little trickle of positive feedback."

"It's also a question of finding good material and interesting roles. I'm not the only actress out there, and good parts just don't fall into your lap that easily. But I like most of the films I've made recently and so I'm pretty positive about the future."

"We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community."

"Constructive criticism is about finding something good and positive to soften the blow to the real critique of what really went on."

"In the annals of history, few men have left a more positive imprint on the world than Pope John Paul II."

"I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images."
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"I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry."

"I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms."

"I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work."

"Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature."

"I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor."

"I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized."

"Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time."
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