(speaking in 1969) When I was under contract to MGM, with people like poor Robert Taylor and so many others, the cinema`s job was solely entertainment. It filled a public need then. Now the cinema serves so many other purposes; it functions as psychiatrist, politician, message-maker, money maker and, incidentally, entertainer. But it`s no good regretting that things are different. Times have to change.
- Deborah KerrThe Russian drama began at the end of 1991, when the Soviet Union mercifully ended. Russia and 14 other new countries emerged from the ruins of the Soviet Union. Every one of those 15 new states faced a profound historical, economic, financial, social and political challenge.
- Jeffrey Sachs(As mayor, he has promised to plant 1 million trees, to start building a subway to the ocean, and to take over the city`s ailing school system, from which approximately 60 percent of Latinos and 50 percent of African-Americans drop out.) Antonio doesn`t do politics for the purpose of political expediency, ... His thinking is guided by what`s in his heart, gut, and head.
- Antonio Sciortino