Lauren Greenfield Quotes

#1. I've long been interested in looking at the culture of consumerism and also was interested in this connection between the American dream and the house, and the house being kind of the ultimate expression of self and success.

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#2. All my film ideas and subjects have come from photography.

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#3. I am very lucky that my first film was fully commissioned by HBO.

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#4. My photography is often a sociological look at American culture, and it's been very well published in the U.K.

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#5. Higher unemployment generally bodes well for franchising. People are looking for a new opportunity, and people who have jobs are a little less confident they'll always have a job.

Fred DeLuca

#6. No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library ... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.

Lawrence Clark Powell

#7. The people in the popular group say there is no peer pressure because they are at the top of the food chain. Really what they are doing is just eating away at everybody else.

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#8. I focus on a lot of women's issues.

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#9. Doomed enterprises divide lives forever into the then and now

Cormac McCarthy

#10. I see myself in the mold of Rin Tin Tin. It didn't go to his head either.

Al Gore

#11. Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon,

Bill Ayers

#12. You have these relationships with people that you care about, but I also try to stick to my job as filmmaker and be fair and truthful about what I saw and my experience of the people, hopefully informed by a deep understanding of them.

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#13. Sometimes we're going to fight, but we're never going to give up on each other.

Jaci Burton

#14. One of the reasons I write is I like being surprised

Anne Enright

#15. I could have rolled the ball up there against Musial, and he would have pulled out a golf club and hit it out.

Don Newcombe

#16. We live in a patriarchal culture. It's okay for women to be objectified but not for men.

Alan Ball

#17. Find the truth and spread the lie.

Hal Duncan

#18. I see myself as a story teller.

E.L. James

#19. It is just a very freaky experience when you go to the movie theater and you see it for the first time. In close-up you see those eyes. There are little touches here and there that I recognize as myself. The process is fun.

Antonio Banderas

#20. My nana was an actress, my mom was an actress, and my sister, too. So because I was surrounded by it, it really came naturally.

Chris Pine

#21. I've often used the extremes in my work to comment on the mainstream. I think that sometimes a subject that I'm working on, like popular culture, is so present all around us that they're hard to see. It's like: How do you see the air you breathe? How do you see how it affects you?

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#22. When I first moved from photography to filmmaking, I was worried about how big I had to become. I was one person, or maybe me and an assistant, and I had these small cameras, and maybe a flash.

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#23. I've been a documentary photographer for much longer than I have been a filmmaker.

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