I feel like there's a lot of sympathy and camaraderie among documentary filmmakers.
“I feel like there's a lot of sympathy and camaraderie among documentary filmmakers.”
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I feel like there's a lot of sympathy and camaraderie among documentary filmmakers.
“I feel like there's a lot of sympathy and camaraderie among documentary filmmakers.”
I feel like there's a lot of sympathy and camaraderie among documentary filmmakers.
Church singing is a great training ground.
They don't make people like Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley anymore.
TV tends to laud the person with the perfect one-liner rather than the one with the better idea.
In a weird way, our satirists probably have the most complicated, nuanced views of our politics now - Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, John Oliver. I don't know what that says about our country.
You can't have empathy for somebody that's gone through something you haven't - because, definitionally, you can't. But you can feel for them and have sympathy for them. And that's what this country needs to practice more. It's about realizing that you do come from a different place.
I am convinced that, despite what you think of Obama, I don't think Obama has a person-to-person connection with people. I think people love him because of his race and feel sorry for him, object of sympathy. I think people feel he's a victim, he portrays himself as a victim of America; he gets sympathy that way.
Sympathy is important, but it rings hollow if not followed by action.
I like the Rolling Stones for karaoke. 'Sympathy For The Devil' is a great one.