Edouard Glissant famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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The "October Revolution" is a myth generated by the winners, the Bolsheviks, and swallowed whole by progressive circles in the West.
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There's enough of a willingness in the West to do sympathetic movies about Arab roles.
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Yonder cloud That rises upward always higher, And onward drags a laboring breast, And topples round the dreary west, A looming bastion fringed with fire.
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Most of my projects seem to start as exploratory journeys with no visible end in sight.
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I developed some unique software to public it on the web that I call the Folklore Project.
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I'd already started directing short films when we were doing 'Lord of the Rings,' then videogame projects.
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Never treat somebody’s cleverness as his life’s smartness. Cleverness is to hide the weakness and the smartness is to project the strength of his weakness.
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I do take lots of time off between projects, but when the right thing comes along, I don't like to turn it down, I've been doing this for a decade, and I remember what it was like when I started. You spend maybe five percent of your time actually doing it, and the rest of the time, you're trying to get that five percent.
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Probably some of the projects I chose to do after that had more to do with what people thought of me. The industry was very open and probably hoping that I could do anything.
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