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QUOTATION OF THE DAY
"I remember quite clearly one of my middle-school teachers telling me that I was a stone with sharp, jagged edges, but that I would turn into a smooth river stone as I grew older. During the years while I was making this film, I felt like I was getting sharper and sharper instead."
ZHAO LIANG, a filmmaker, on "Petition," a documentary that angered the Chinese government.