A lot of times, we censor ourselves before the censor even gets there. - Spike Lee

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Some leaders of denominations are not of the Bride of Christ. They are leaders in a Church in which many have long since betrayed the Master. When they meet someone of the Underground Church, a martyr, they look at him strangely.

Spike Lee

A lot of times, we censor ourselves before the censor even gets there.

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I believe in destiny. But I also believe that you can’t just sit back and let destiny happen. A lot of times, an opportunity might fall into your lap, but you have to be ready for that opportunity. You can’t sit there waiting on it. A lot of times you are going to have to get out there and make it happen.

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I think black people have to be in control of their own image because film is a powerful medium. We can't just sit back and let other people define our existence.

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You gotta make your own way. You gotta find a way. You gotta get it done. It's hard. It's tough. That's what I tell my students every day in class. I've been very fortunate. Some people might call me a hardhead, but I'm not going to let other people dictate to me who I should be or the stories I should tell. That doesn't register with me.

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It comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and it's been a quest since then to define who we are.

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I may have been born yesterday, but I stayed up all night.

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I wanted to prove that I could do something, so I made a short film. That was in fact my main concern, to be able to show that I could do one.

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Uwe Boll

I think the harsh reviews helped, in that I spent way more energy in the preproduction and development. From this point of view, I'm very thankful for the harsh critics. I still think the critics were unnecessarily insulting in a lot of things, but I think it helped.

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Richard Wurmbrand

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Gautama Buddha

There is, monks, an unborn, unbecome, unmade, unconditioned. If, monks, there were no unborn. . . no escape would be discerned from what is born, become, made, conditioned. But because there is an unborn. . . , therefore an escape is discerned from what is born, become, made, conditioned.

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David Foster Wallace

You don't have to think very hard to realize that our dread of both relationships and loneliness. . . has to do with angst about death, the recognition that I'm going to die, and die very much alone, and the rest of the world is going to go merrily on without me.

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