"While I was studying film at the Academy, the problems started. I wasn't a political activist directly in the time of Saddam [Hussein], because the dictator was so cruel and brutal that no one could criticize or complain. I felt futile and empty. The only solution in Iraq was to run away."

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Hassan Blasim

#Running Quotes #Iraq Quotes #Political Quotes

“I bring to a role everything I am, was and hope to be.”
“Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.”
“You realise the responsibility of carrying a film on your shoulders when people are investing money in you and they recognise the hard work you have to put in.”
“Painting or poetry is made as one makes love - a total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds, nothing held back.”
“If you visit the killing floor of a slaughterhouse, it will brand your soul for life.”
“Publishers see free downloads as threatening the sales of the book.”
“The people of England are never so happy as when you tell them they are ruined.”
“The valuable library of Alexandria was pillaged or destroyed; and near twenty years afterwards, the appearance of the empty shelves excited the regret and indignation of every spectator whose mind was not totally darkened by religious prejudice. The compositions of ancient genius, so many of which have irretrievably perished, might surely have been excepted from the wreck of idolatry, for the amusement and instruction of succeeding ages.”

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