"It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination."

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Source : Akira Kurosawa (2011). “Something Like An Autobiography”, p.30, Vintage

Akira Kurosawa

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“Communism is the flower of idleness.”
“If every call to Christ and His righteousness is a call to suffering, the converse is equally - every call to suffering is a call to Christ, a promotion, an invitation to come up higher.”
“What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.”
“I can be very passionate but I also have a bit of a hot temper - when pushed.”
“I'd make a terrible surgeon. The fear of blood? Very high on my list.”
“Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test.”

Source : Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden
“Mister Cameron - I have read the unexpurgated Ovid, the love poems of Sappho, the Decameron in the original, and a great many texts in Greek and Latin histories that were not though fit for proper gentlemen to read, much less proper ladies. I know in precise detail what Caligula did to, and with, his sisters, and I can quote it to you in Latin or in my own translation if you wish. I am interested in historical truth, and truth in history is often unpleasant and distasteful to those of fine sensibility. I frankly doubt that you will produce anything to shock me.”
“It isn't what we are, but what folks think we are, that counts in this world.”

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