"It's difficult to make movies. For me it was easier, as a refugee in Switzerland, to make documentary films, because I didn't need a lot of money for it. The way I tell my story or my opinion would be very similar in both fiction and documentary forms. But I found I could speak more effectively to convey this brutal reality through documentary than I could through fiction."

-- Mano Khalil

#Reality Quotes #Opinion Quotes #Speak Quotes

“Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal.”
“I was 17 pounds when I was born. My mother couldn't walk for three weeks.”
“Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their artists. There was talk of me going to Columbia after that, but nothing happened. I got disillusioned, and I pulled back.”
“In spite of muzzling the press, imprisoning thousands, and engaging in torture, kidnapping and murder, the Socialist government was still vulnerable to the accusation of being "soft on Basques.”

Source : Mark Kurlansky (2010). “The Basque History of the World”, p.294, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“People suffer when they pursue a life or chase a dream that doesnâ€™t belong to them.”
“Manlius ... took care in his invitations, actively sought to exclude from his circle crude and vulgar men like Caius Valerius. But they were all around; it was Manlius who lived in a dream world, and his bubble of civility was becoming smaller and smaller. Caius Valerius, powerful member of a powerful family, had never even heard of Plato. A hundred, even fifty years before, such an absurdity would have been inconceivable. Now it was surprising if such a man did know anything of philosophy, and even if it was explained, he would not wish to understand.”

Source : Iain Pears (2003). “Dream of Scipio”, p.18, Penguin
“Instead of bringing back 1600 plants, we might return from our journeys with a collection of small unfÃªted but life-enhancing thoughts.”
“War has taught me that each one of us contains every ingredient of the human recipe. By varying measure we are all cowards and brave men, thieves and honest men, selfish and selfless men, malingerers and champions, weasels and lions. The only question is how much of each attribute we allow- or force - to dominate our being.”

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