"When I was teaching at the University of Tehran we were struggling against the implementation of the revolution rules."

-- Azar Nafisi

#Struggle Quotes #Teaching Quotes #Revolution Quotes

“Maidens, like moths, are ever caught, by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.”
“Bowl better, Bat better, Catch better, communicate better... Just bloody play better.... I am now available for Selection of Australia..!!!!!”
“What yesterday was still religion is no longer such today; and what today is athesim, tomorrow will be religion.”

Source : "German socialist philosophy".
“It is almost impossible to open a newspaper without reading something about the London housing market. House prices are rising at such a rate that the vast majority of Londoners can't afford to buy, are being forced out of the boroughs they grew up in, or in the worst cases, are being made homeless. If nothing is done, people will continue to be driven out of the city and London will cease to be a hub for creativity and entrepreneurship.”
“I think as an artist or a writer it's OK to want to control your own work.”
“There are certain scenes in the edit you're playing with it and certain scenes don't put back together the way you imagined. Sometimes they're better and sometimes they don't have that thing, so it's never foolproof. But you certainly get an idea that here we've got enough and we've got to move on because you're always against time and money there. Whatever the budget is, you have to get practical about it.”
“Throughout all the pain of enslavement and despotism, of inquisition, forced conversion, and massacre, the Jewish people has carried in its heart the yearning for freedom and has given this craving a folk expression which includes every soul in Israel, every single downtrodden pauperized soul!”
“I never really had any intention of getting involved in documentaries until the opportunity came around. I always thought much more in classic fiction cinema terms and I think I tried to apply those ideas to documentaries and not vice versa.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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