"I loved movies ever since I was a kid."

-- Roger Deakins

“I paint when I cannot photograph.”
“Without doubt, the most common weakness of all human beings is the habit of leaving their minds open to the negative influence of other people.”
“What is all this juice and all this joy? A strain of the earth's sweet being in the beginning In Eden garden.-Have, get, before it cloy, Before it cloud, Christ, lord, and sour with sinning, Innocent mind and Mayday in girl and boy, Most, O maid's child, thy choice and worthy the winning.”
“Identity politics is the mother's milk of the Democratic Left.”
“The only guide to man is his conscience.”
“How inferior the human machine is, compared to man-made machines. They can be decoked, unscrewed, oiled and parts replaced. Decidedly, nature is not a very wonderful thing.”

Source : Joris-Karl Huysmans (1989). “The Road from Decadence: From Brothel to Cloister : Selected Letters of J.K. Huysmans”
“The heart of assimilation process of absorbing minorities lies in the self-image of a nation. There are, as you will know, big differences for instance between the self-image of the French and the English. And the Germans, in accordance with their rather chequered history, had at least in the past very little capacity for absorbing minorities.”

Source : Source: quod.lib.umich.edu
“...It isn't the problems along the way that make us or break us. It's how we learn to stand and face them that makes the difference.”

Source : Joan Bauer (1999). “Rules of the road”

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