"War is cinema, and cinema is war"

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Paul Virilio

#War Quotes #Cinema Quotes

“I'm a good guy at the end of the day, you know what I'm saying? A lot of people will believe what they see in the media from a long time ago. I'm just growing as an artist and as a person.”
“I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple”
“I want to make it clear that I do not judge or condemn any woman who has had an abortion, but every abortion is a tragedy and up to 100,000 abortions a year is this generation's legacy of unutterable shame.”
“Hollywood is what you make it; you have to choose company with care because you become what they are.”

Source : Biography/Person Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Could he be naked beneath his breeches? They seemed molded to him, outlining the powerful lines of his thighs and the swell just aboveâ€” Oh, God. She closed her eyes. Sheâ€™d been looking at hisâ€”Not only was it rude, but it had sent an amazing tingle through her, almost as if sheâ€™d touched it. â€œFiona, if you ever look at me like that again, I will not be held responsible for what I do.â€ Jack was so close that she could feel his breath on her temple. â€œDo you understand?”

Source : Karen Hawkins (2007). “How to Abduct a Highland Lord”, p.65, Simon and Schuster
“Magicians are manipulating your consciousness. They are showing you something impossible. They're getting you to construct a narrative, which simply isn't true. So that means they know how to make you aware of certain things and blind to other things. What I'm hoping is that magic, this entertainment vehicle that has been around for a long time, will give us a real insight into the deep mysteries of consciousness”
“Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.”

Source : Quoted in Evan Esar, The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949). Usually attributed to Dewar, but it should be noted that the line "mind like parachute - only function when open!" appears in the 1936 film Charlie Chan at the Circus (screenplay by Robert Ellis and Helen Logan).
“I could say that in the essay, as it has developed historically, success is determined by the writer's ability to express, through an individual voice, a collective experience - you are speaking individually but you are representing collectively.”

Source : "You Are Vijay Seshadri". Interview with Laura Standley, logger.believermag.com. June 10, 2014.

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