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Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty. ↗

— Angela Davis

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My name became known because I was, one might say accidentally the target of state repression and because so many people throughout the country and other parts of the world organized around the demand for my freedom. ↗

— Angela Davis

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The truth is, I can't help the way people perceive anything, from the role of financial industry in the economic crisis, to the place of women's fiction in the canon of modern literature, to the rank of mint chocolate chip ice cream as a favorite Baskin-Robbins flavor. ↗

— Erin Duffy

#canon #chip #chocolate #cream #crisis

And it's not only films, I'm pretty unaware of anything that's going on in popular culture right now. ↗

— Brad Bird

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When you have a couple hundred people in one huge space, that's gonna lead to jokes and it's a breeding ground for practical jokes and teasing. ↗

— Erin Duffy

#couple #gonna #ground #huge #hundred

I think it's the most extraordinary studio around. I would love to do my next project with Pixar. ↗

— Brad Bird

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If there are similarities, it's simply because the same thoughts that occurred to other people also occurred to me. I'd be astonished if anyone could come up with any truly original powers that were at all interesting any more. ↗

— Brad Bird

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Look, I think if you talk down to a kid or aim specifically at a kid, most kids aren't gonna like it, really, because most kids can feel when you are being patronizing. ↗

— Brad Bird

#because #being #down #feel #gonna

That's not the part of the story that I'm interested in, anyway. The part that I'm interested in is all the personal stuff. I tried to base the powers on family archetypes. ↗

— Brad Bird

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We make films that we ourselves would want to see and then hope that other people would want to see it. If you try to analyze audiences or think there's some sophisticated recipe for success, then I think you are doomed. You're making it too complicated. ↗

— Brad Bird

#audiences #complicated #doomed #films #hope