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"I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way."

"You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time."
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"Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman who had gradually ceased to be a Marxist, and a culture that was becoming more Marxist by the day."


"Music is a very integral part of the film, but it will not be as full of music as a Bollywood film."


"The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a much bigger picture. It's like conducting an orchestra."


"Even if we don't know it or aren't aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives."


"I'm not a very serious person. You know how they say that clowns are very funny in public and are really sad at home? I'm really kind of stupid at home and more serious in public."


"Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present?"


"I don't really say much about reviewers. It's a very tough job to get all of the depth of a movie all at once."
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