Quotes about "Contemporary Issues"

I don't think there's any one definition, but to do effective political work you have to have vision and practicality, and learn how to persuade people that what you feel needs to be done does need to be done. ”

Unless you have a sense of values that's shared by people and turns them loose to do certain things on their own within those sets of values, the organization, whether a nation or corporation or citizen group, just doesn't work very well. ”

Collective' sounds like communism, but we do work and live in a society where there is a collective well-being. ”

Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work. ”

During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people's creations. ”

Most of us live in artificial environments and then we go to work in artificial environments and the world becomes something that you see through a window. ”

Depending on what happens with my directing career, I don't think I'll stop writing, even if I crash and burn in movies and TV. I'll go back to plays. Even if I crash and burn there, I'll write a novel. That's the great thing about writing is that you don't have to wait for people to give you permission to do it. ”

Happy relationships are boring. We all want them in our own life. But I don't want to watch them on TV. ”

Well, here's the thing with relationships on 'True Blood': Once they happen then you have to throw a monkey-wrench into them, because to have people be happy is not that exciting. ”

I try to tell the best story, and the story that has some heart and some genuine terror and some social commentary and some comedy and some romance and some sex and some violence. ”