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Can we really believe that we are living a good life, an ethically decent life if we don't do anything serious to help reduce poverty around the world and help save the lives of children or adults who are likely to die if we don't increase the amount of aid we are giving. ↗

— Peter Singer

#amount #anything #around #believe #children

Yes, I was hired by Universal because they needed a comedy director. They had seen Scandal and liked it. I saw an opportunity even in those comedies to begin my project of American films. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#american films #because #begin #comedies #comedy

Well, I think that if you sincerely try to imagine what life is like for another person - not in a mocking way, not in a satirical way, but in a sincere, compassionate way - I don't think that's exploitive. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#compassionate #i #i think #imagine #life

I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something else, that's exciting. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#curious #else #exciting #feel #go

It's never that hard for me to imagine what it must feel like to be someone else, whether it's an American teenage girl or a Japanese octogenarian man. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#else #feel #girl #hard #imagine

Probably I, like a lot of people, became a writer in imitation of or in homage to the books I enjoyed. When you're so captivated by something, you think, could I do that? Hmm, let me try. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#books #captivated #could #enjoyed #hmm

I just don't get invited to the same dinner parties I used to like to go to. ↗

— Ron Silver

#dinner parties #get #go #i #invited

My reluctance to use alien invasion is due to the feeling that we are not likely to be invaded and taken over. ↗

— Clifford D. Simak

#due #feeling #invaded #invasion #likely

I always think it's interesting to dig a little bit deeper every time you go to someplace that seems like a revelation or a strong connection to an emotional truth. ↗

— Carly Simon

#bit #connection #deeper #dig #emotional

Being in this business for as long as I've been in it, it's sort of like living in a town or a city before the war and then after the war and then during the reconstruction and then during the time that it sprawls out to the malls. ↗

— Carly Simon

#been #before #being #business #city