"Poland and my roots are very important for me. That's why I decided to make a feature film in Poland, and with only Polish money."

-- Malgorzata Szumowska

#Roots Quotes #Important Quotes #Film Quotes

“I think humans are driven by othering people, by defining themselves by who they are not and who is different from them. Human beings are in love with othering.”

Source : Source: www.kaltblut-magazine.com
“A baseball club is part of the chemistry of the city. A game isn't just an athletic contest. It's a picnic, a kind of town meeting.”
“I don't get the romances. I did try - a film called 'Roseanna's Grave' in the 1990s. I liked it. But the audience didn't come.”
“Without energy life would be extinguished instantaneously, and the cellular fabric would collapse.”
“Yes, I am my brother's keeper. I am under a moral obligation to him that is inspired, not by any maudlin sentimentality but by the higher duty I owe myself. What would you think me if I were capable of seating myself at a table and gorging myself with food and saw about me the children of my fellow beings starving to death.”

Source : "The Issue". Eugene V. Debs' speech in Girard, Kansas, May 23, 1908.
“Staring in the darkness, trying to sleep. My body was aching with tiredness. My limbs were numb. My sightless eyes were crazed with light/ I was dying of oblivion, but it wouldn't come. I didn't think I've ever sleep again.”
“I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was... a large Arctic region covered with ice.”
“Not even pencil or charcoal is needed. Drawing can also be done with a brush. But drawing is a must, if not, no painting can resist.”

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