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“Every brand of religion maintains, and is, a permanent mechanism for transmitting ideas and values - whether one regards those values as admirable or ridiculous. Secularist organizations, with their generally looser, nonhierarchical structures, lack the power to hand down and disseminate their heritage in such a systematic way.”
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“There is no space in which worship should not take place, no time when it should not occur, and no activity through which it should not happen.”
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“One has to devote oneself to a particular pursuit. To be successful at anything, you have to make a total commitment to it.”
Source : "Stephen Frears: 'Audiences aren't fools - their judgement is crucial'" by Nick Fraser, www.theguardian.com. August 14, 2010. 
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“And so I look back on not just the last ten years but everything that I've done as being sort of an ongoing growing continual film school. I mean I don't think I've got to a point where I've achieved anything that feels like, a particular milestone, but there's still a lot more to learn and hopefully a lot more films to make.”
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“If there's no magic of cinema, you only have the plain imagery of television. We are moving more and more towards a world devoid of meaningful experiences. We're going to the surface.”
Source : Source: www.rogerebert.com
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“A lot of things happened when I left there, and to be fair they treated me really bad, and now I have to play against them so I don't have any feelings for them at all.”
Source : Interview with Rob Hobson, www.cfcnet.co.uk. August 10, 2005.
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“You couldn’t keep your mouth shut? I’m calling you Glitterhair from now on. Or Talksalot.”
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“Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes.”
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“Somebody said, 'Roger doesn't know how to spend money.' And I thought, 'I don't spend money because I don't have it!' If I had it, I could spend money! That's about the only time I was told that!”
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“I didn't want to fall back. But I realized it was more important to make it to the end under my own power than to run flat out in the lead or in second and then run out of fuel with a lap to go.”
