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The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#culture #customers #industry #much #reactions

We talk about Hollywood being pro-labor, yet about 70% of our industry has been farmed out to Canada, meaning we are losing jobs like crazy. Where's organized labor asking how we can allow such a thing to happen? ↗

— Danny Aiello

#allow #asking #been #being #canada

People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#fortunes #left #marry #men #money

Nowadays, the process of growth and development almost never seems to manage to create this subtle balance between the importance of the individual parts, and the coherence of the environment as a whole. One or the other always dominates. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

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But in practice master plans fail - because they create totalitarian order, not organic order. They are too rigid; they cannot easily adapt to the natural and unpredictable changes that inevitably arise in the life of a community. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

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So with 'There Will Be Blood,' I didn't even really feel like I was adapting a book. I was just desperate to find stuff to write. ↗

— Paul Thomas Anderson

#blood #book #desperate #even #feel

I really subscribe to that old adage that you should never let the audience get ahead of you for a second. So if the film's abrasive and wrongfoots people then, y'know, that's great. But I hope it involves an audience. ↗

— Paul Thomas Anderson

#ahead #audience #film #get #great

Nowadays there are too many players who can't get a contract elsewhere, who come to England and just take the money. ↗

— Rob Andrew

#contract #elsewhere #england #get #just

God has made Canada one of those nations which cannot be conquered and cannot be destroyed, except by itself. ↗

— Norman Angell

#cannot #conquered #destroyed #except #god

I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters. ↗

— Susan B. Anthony

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