NO SMALL MATTER (2020) | Official Theatrical Trailer
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Our future depends on our youngest citizens. On how many words they hear in their first months of life. On how often they are held. On the kinds of experiences they have.
Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he's going out to buy an envelope:“Oh, she says, well, you're not a poor man. You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. "And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. I meet a lot of people. And see some great looking babies. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And I'll ask a woman what kind of dog that is. "And, and I don't know. The moral of the story is - we're here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. "You know, we love to move around. And it's like we're not supposed to dance at all anymore." This is me in a nutshell.-Btw, this is from the book “A Man Without a Country” (by Kurt Vonne...
John Beale of Focus Features shared this poignant tidbit. I have always been a fan of Mr. Rogers and here is another example of why. In 1969, black American were not allowed to swim in “white-only” swimming pools. Mr. Rogers invited a black officer on his show and asked if he wanted to cool off by dipping his feet in his inflatable pool. Mr. Rogers joined him, breaking the color barrier on live televison.
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