Scacconference Quotes & Sayings

Afflictions for God's sake are dearer to Him than any prayer or sacrifice. — Isaac Of Nineveh

Your body can be very female, which is something you can do nothing about, but then you can have the soul, the mind and the spirit of both male and female. The women friends I am closest to somehow have this masculine side to them, they shove their hands in their pockets when they walk: I love that side. — Sonia Rykiel

I love writing and directing because it's great therapy. Every project I've done, there's been a personal connection. — Gina Prince-Bythewood

We all carry a dancer in ourselves. Even if we do not know anything about this dancer within us, we have the urge to awaken him within us. — Dick Mccaw

Economist and Africa expert Collier analyzes why a group of 50 nations, home to the poorest one billion people, are failing. Considering issues such as civil war, dependence on extractive industries, and bad governance, he argues that the strongest industrialized countries must enact a plan to help with international policies and standards. — Amy Lockwood

I have written screenplays. Most recently for Errol Morris, who was thinking about doing his first fiction movie, and with a young director who wanted to adopt Project X. Errol was a hoot. I loved talking with him. We were a good match, too, because we both kept joking that we'd found the only other person on earth more ambivalent than we were about the project. — Jim Shepard

I hate waking up every morning to my alarm. I always bang my head on the steering wheel. — Scott Wood

So like it or not, the question for us, as it has always been for working women, is how will we navigate the emotional mine field of love and power, career and family? — Lia Macko