"Have you seen the film Histoires D'AmÃ©rique? It's also a mixture of humor and monologue, and it shows how the Jewish humor comes from drama and tragedy."

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Chantal Akerman

#Drama Quotes #Tragedy Quotes #Film Quotes

“Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.”
“When we take the position that it is not only the programmer's responsibility to produce a correct program but also to demonstrate its correctness in a convincing manner, then the above remarks have a profound influence on the programmer's activity: the object he has to produce must be usefully structured.”
“Shut your eyes to the medical columns of the newspapers, and you will save yourself many forebodings and symptoms.”

Source : Samuel Hopkins Adams (1912). “The Great American fraud”
“Life is not meant to be hard: if it is, we make it so.”
“I try to be aware of the life that surrounds me as much as my mind permits me. It's the only time I have new blissful moments, and I love bliss.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published.”
“We've got to show that blacks and whites are treated equally in the army. Otherwise, what's the point of waging war on Hitler?”
“Half of me knows too much to be carefree. But the other half knows enough to be grateful.”

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