Quote by Gary Ross
Most modern science fiction went to school on Dune. Even Harry Pot

Most modern science fiction went to school on Dune. Even Harry Potter with its boy protagonist who has not yet grown into his destiny shares a common theme. When I read it for the first time, I felt like I had learned another language, mastered a new culture, adopted a new religion. – Gary Ross

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Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the 50s, and for other generations it will be something else. Change is scary for everyone, as is complexity, contradiction, and an uncertain future. – Gary Ross

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History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution. – Gary Ross

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Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. Its almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies. – Gary Ross

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Every fundamentalist movement Ive studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion. – Karen Armstrong

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Were all sick of holy wars and bloodshed because religion is supposed to give us life and a better life and is supposed to bring out our best self. When it results in mass destruction and hatred and anxiety, its the antithesis I think of what religion was designed to do. – Vera Farmiga

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Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life. – John Updike, Self-Consciousness, 1989

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I like the silence of a church, before the service begins better than any preaching. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. – Ambrose Bierce

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If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails. – Leo Buscaglia

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