Shabana Azmi Aurat’ is an iconic poem which is relevant 70 years later and informs me in the work I do with women. – Shabana Azmi Aurat Quotes Iconic Quotes Informs Quotes Poem Quotes Relevant Quotes Women Quotes It seems kosher and OK to treat women as objects because the business of cinema is about images and when you have fragmented images of a woman’s bosom and her swiveling hip and her twisting navel, it robs the woman of all autonomy and subjects her to the male gaze. India is a country that lives in several centuries simultaneously, and her people at any given time and place encapsulate all the contradictions that come from being a multi-cultural, multi-religious and multi-lingual society.
Gene Luen Yang We have to allow ourselves the freedom to make mistakes, including cultural mistakes, in our first drafts. I believe it’s okay to get cultural details wrong in your first draft. It’s okay if stereotypes emerge. It just means that your experience is limited, that you’re human. – Gene Luen Yang
Elijah Kelley When I graduated from high school, my mom and dad were saying I needed to go to college, but I said I wanted to pursue my dream of acting. At the end of my high school career, they quit their jobs, and we moved out to California on a leap of faith. – Elijah Kelley
Kevin Dillon I guess Tom Cruise – everything he does, everything he touches, is kind of a success. – Kevin Dillon
Ezer Weizman Leave my image alone… I will behave as I think I should and I will not change anything. – Ezer Weizman
David Crystal Sending a message on a mobile phone is not the most natural of ways to communicate. The keypad isn’t linguistically sensible. – David Crystal
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