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I couldn't accept the racial epithets in reference to players like Elliott Maddox or Billy Sample. ”
The show doesn't drive home a lesson, but it can open up people's minds enough for them to see how stupid every kind of prejudice can be. ”
Family planning, birth control, no Muslim family can practice such an understanding. ”
According to this view, democracy is a product of western culture, and it cannot be applied to the Middle East which has a different cultural, religious, sociological and historical background. ”
Among leaders in Europe there are those who have prejudices against Turkey, like France and Germany. ”
Democratic institutions are based on a reality of human nature: that those with power, however benign or even noble their intentions, will do what they can to keep it. ”
In high drama or high tragedy or anything, it's not really human unless there's some humor at the same time. And vice versa. So I guess I tend to gravitate towards projects which tread a dodgy tightrope between two things, which aren't really one or another. ”
I don't think it's helpful to put them all in a box and say people are evil and freaks because they have gotten to the point where they have fallen out of the community of what it is to be a human being. That's worthy of investigation. ”
If I'm going to be honest about it, I think men get to do this sort of thing all the time. You look at countless performances by great male actors who get to play the whole gamut of human emotions. Women aren't regularly allowed to do that, and I don't know why people are so frightened by it. ”
Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude. ”