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" Bleak natural conditions in the cold North have certainly helped teach us to work hard in order to survive and to take care of each other. "

Tarja Halonen
" Everyone must look beyond short-term national interests. This way we can achieve results that will be visible in our citizens' lives. "

Tarja Halonen
" It is people who are the objects of globalization and at the same time its subjects. What also follows logically from this is that globalization is not a law of nature, but rather a process set in train by people. "

Tarja Halonen
" The Finland of the 21st century can thrive only if women of learning - in common with their male counterparts - are guaranteed the opportunity to use their creative potential to the full. "

Tarja Halonen
" The goal of the EU is to form a region of freedom, security and justice. Freedom in this connection cannot be just the freedom of the strong, but it must be combined with fraternity and equality. "

Tarja Halonen
" Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence. "

Tarja Halonen
" We are a model country where gender equality is concerned. "

Tarja Halonen
" We must see our highly-educated, polyglot women as one of Finland's trump cards in an internationalising world. "

Tarja Halonen
" A government institution called the Finnish Film Foundation funds filmmaking there, and I wrote several screenplays but never got any money. They were sent back to me, and they said that they were too commercial for them. "

Renny Harlin
" Actually, it was first a movie called Gale Force, which was a hurricane movie. That script never came together, and then the same deal was replaced with Cliffhanger. "

Renny Harlin
" After two years, I quit film school. "

Renny Harlin
" At that point, the movie was called Wild Force. Everything fell apart, eventually - our financing completely fell apart - and we were never able to make that film. "

Renny Harlin
" Basically, the word means having guts and being determined and never giving up. That's why it was the only country in that part of the world that didn't get invaded by the Russians in World War II, and that's why Fins have always pulled through despite the harsh weather conditions and challenges. "

Renny Harlin
" Eventually I did that, but it took a lot of twists and turns, and there were a year or two there where I was living with no money at all - no home, no car, no nothing. I was living in somebody's garage in Los Angeles at that point - for a year. "

Renny Harlin
" Eventually, in '84, we made a film for a little over a million dollars - with American actors that was shot in English - that was shown in Finland A little action film called Born American. "

Renny Harlin
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