"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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"I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.“
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"Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies."
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"Ultimately, so much Dr. Seuss is about empowerment. He invites us to disappear into our imagination and then blows the doors off what that can mean."
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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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"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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"You can't tell your kids to read if you're just watching television. They have to see you read. And in that respect, I think it's important to walk the walk. It's a wonderful shared time."
-Gary Ross
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"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."
-J. K. Rowling
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"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly."
-Langston Hughes
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"I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?"
-John Lennon
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"I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams."
-H. P. Lovecraft
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"I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long."
-Joseph Heller
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"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears."
-Les Brown
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