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At 99 and after a long stay in a nursing home, the death of legendary photographer Eve Arnold was hardly a surprise - though she may have been just a little annoyed to quit a few months short of 100.

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Death, Been, Nursing, Though

Whether in cave paintings or the latest uses of the Internet, human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers.

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Cave, Through, Always, Fable

The devadasis have a multilayered story, a story in which poverty, deprivation and injustice against women is central - but what has happened to them is absolutely an outcome of imperialism and the impact of British rule in India.

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Injustice, Against, Which, Deprivation

The devices that our kids use are shipped from the factory with every possible audio, visual or vibration alert switched on. Each new app, website, tweet and message adds another layer of intrusion - each intrusion is cynically designed to get a response, and each response creates an appetite for another intrusion.

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Another, Use, Vibration, Layer

Girls from poor families of the 'untouchable,' or lower, caste are 'married' to Yellamma as young as four. No longer allowed to marry a mortal, they are expected to bestow their entire lives to the service of the goddess.

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Young, Lives, Allowed, Caste

This idea of the digital native in the bedroom taking down a fascist regime and building a billion-dollar company is a very attractive image, but actually, if you look at the research, young people are on the lowest rung of digital opportunity.

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Young, Idea, Very, Rung

Everything a teenager does, says or looks at, however transitory, contributes to an aggregated virtual self that might one day have consequences for its real-life counterpart. How many of us would keep all our relationships and reputations intact if every transgression, mistake or youthful folly was held in public view?

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Virtual, Folly, However, Transgression

I want to talk about privacy, the quality of the information you receive, whether it's neutral or commercial or pointed, bringing consciousness to the lack of neutrality in the algorithms.

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Want, Commercial, Receive, Pointed

Everything serious in the world is well approached by humour. It's a powerful and often quite subversive tool. I suppose there is an argument that could be made against me for being frivolous, but I do think a laugh is a very generous thing to give.

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Argument, Very, Subversive, Frivolous

People have a right to have their lives witnessed; if we coexist with the systems that abuse people, then we have a duty to understand.

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Abuse, Witnessed, Lives, Coexist

The film that changed my life is a 1951 film by Vittorio De Sica, 'Miracle in Milan.' It's a remarkable comment on slums, poverty and aspiration.

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My Life, Film, Milan, Slums

Our children, manipulated to become exemplary consumers, increasingly admit they do not feel 'in control' of their own Internet use.

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Own, Use, Increasingly, Exemplary

On telly, there's been a move towards entertainment - with some very high-powered, fast-moving dramas. Then we have the Internet, where we get our information but it's all in bite-size pieces. I think the documentary, as a form, actually speaks to what's missing.

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Some, Been, Very, Dramas

For most women, Greenham was a place of principle, growth and song. Often joyful, sometimes terrifying, and almost always cold. As it got harder, with constant evictions and mounting violence from a frustrated and humiliated police force, the women got more determined. It was a community with a shared purpose - to live in peace.

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Constant, Terrifying, Shared, Police Force

Making a big commercial movie is hard when you think about how many of them flop.

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Think, Big, Making, Flop

For me, trying to articulate the world to help people see it in a way they haven't seen it before is hugely important. Sometimes, you have to take something that is completely inexplicable and say, 'Look, here is the beating heart of something you must understand.'

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Sometimes, Here, Before, Articulate

The idea of the Internet as sort of open and democratic and free and with no hierarchy, the libertarian beginnings as it were, with peer-to-peer networks... I'd sort of like for everyone to just admit that we're beyond that now.

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Everyone, Like, Idea, Libertarian

I've lost count of the plane tickets I've had in my pocket for people's weddings and other celebrations which I've had to tear up because I was making a film. How many things like that can you miss and still be in people's lives?

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Other, Plane, Tickets, Celebrations

The previous generation paved the way for my generation to gallop unheeded into jobs previously reserved for men.

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Generation, Jobs, Previous, Paved

We think that there is this terrible idea that the kids are digital natives... and they know what they're doing, but all the evidence says that they're hanging around going, 'Where are you, I'm here, can I post my picture?' They're not actually writing wikis; they're not actually listening to great poets live.

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Doing, Here, Evidence, Natives

We now have powerful technology, which allows us a voice across boundaries, which was unimaginable at the time of the Greenham Protest, a protest that pre-dates the Internet and the mobile phone.

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Voice, Mobile, Which, Unimaginable

Each January, nearly half a million people visit the small town of Saundatti for ajatre or festival, to be blessed by Yellamma, the Hindu goddess of fertility.

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Small, Town, Half, January

Arguably, it was the introduction of international non-proliferation treaties in the late '80s that finally led to the missiles being removed from Greenham Common.

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Finally, Non-Proliferation, Missiles

I am still cautiously hopeful about the potential of the Internet. But it seems that the greatest revolution in communication has been hijacked by commercial values.

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Commercial, Been, Still, Hijacked

I like the accidental nature of being in the real world.

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Nature, World, Like, Accidental

When politicians say, 'Oh, parents should supervise their kids' Internet use,' it drives me crazy.

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Say, Politicians, Use, Supervise

I absolutely don't want to suggest that women are unreliable because we're mothers - on the contrary. But the question of who brings up the kids has a material effect on all women's careers.

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Question, Want, Suggest, On The Contrary

I've liked being Jewish in America - there's a secular version of Jewishness there that's more about bagels and jokes than going to synagogues.

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More, Going, About, Jokes

In the U.S., it would be so much better if the studios made many more smaller films for niche markets rather than a few tent pole films that swamp cinemas and Hoover up all the funding.

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Tent, Rather, Smaller, Hoover

The thing about documentary is that you don't really choose your subjects: they come and grab you out of your bed.

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Bed, Subjects, About, Grab

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