"I'm very excited about some of the novels that I have adapted. I think they're equally as powerful, if not more. Going After Cacciato (by Tim O'Brien) is something I'm very passionate about."

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Source : Source: collider.com

Gabe Polsky

#Powerful Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Passionate Quotes

“Courage is, on all hands, considered as an essential of high character.”
“National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.”

Source : Edward Sapir, David Goodman Mandelbaum (1985). “Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality”, p.118, Univ of California Press
“Modern totalitarianism can be defined as the establishment, by means of the state of exception, of a legal civil war that allows for the physical elimination not only of political adversaries but of entire categories of citizens who for some reason cannot be integrated into the political system”

Source : Giorgio Agamben (2008). “State of Exception”, p.2, University of Chicago Press
“When you see someone as a human being, you begin to understand most people are doing what they believe is right. I ask myself, "What if you were wrong? How would you want someone to engage with you?"”
“The tongue, the ambassador of the heart.”
“I'm interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas.”
“Good and evil, as we term them, are not antagonistic; they are ever found hand in hand. Humanity has never achieved a single conquest without the aid of both. Indeed how can she? What adds to moral strength, but a grappling with temptation?”
“I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers...”

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