"It's so easy to manipulate an audience, but it's nearly always clear that you are being manipulated. I think even people that are not critically attuned are aware of cynical manipulation in film."

-- John Boorman

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Cynical Quotes

“Raise your quality standards as high as you can live with, avoid wasting your time on routine problems, and always try to work as closely as possible at the boundary of your abilities. Do this, because it is the only way of discovering how that boundary should be moved forward.”
“This is the simplest of all thoughts, that Death must come when we call, although he is a god.”
“One of the fundamental preconditions of successful socialist construction is to ensure the people's readiness to defend themselves from the ravages of probable regional or global wars on the basis of the balance of forces generating from the basic contradictions of our epoch.”

Source : "Revolutionary Ethiopia: From Empire to People's Republic". Book by Edmund J. Keller, 1991.
“For this mortal I would disobey my queen, abandon my king, the court that has protected me all these years. All of it.”
“If you see someone in trouble, you should help them. Experiment or not.”
“But I think the global economy will understand that the United States has the ability to meet its obligations. But it's not going to be able to do it over the long term if we can't control the growth of government.”
“I early became conscious that men breathe more audibly than women. Sit in a room in silence with men and women, and you can always hear the men breathing.”

Source : Miles Franklin (2017). “Childhood At Brindabella: My First Ten Years”, p.27, ETT Imprint
“The quality of that 'who I am', is what I hope comes out in the writing.”

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