"I can't remember ever feeling so glad that a movie was finally over. [Director George] Lucas may have held my imagination hostage for two hours, but reclaiming it afterward wasn't hard at all."

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Source : Review of "Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones", Salon.com, 2002.

Stephanie Zacharek

#Two Quotes #Imagination Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.”
“I want to show kids, look where I came from. You can do it too if you believe and are willing to work hard.”
“I love films like Deliverance where you can watch it over and over again and decode all of its many different meanings.”
“What's an opera if everyone is dead in it?”

Source : "Fictional character: The Beggar". "The Beggar's Opera", www.imdb.com. 1953.
“Our genius ain't appreciated around here... let's scram!”
“The Anarchists are right in everything; in the negation of the existing order, and in the assertion that, without authority, there could not be worse violence than that of authority under existing conditions. They are mistaken only in thinking that Anarchy can be instituted by a revolution. "To establish Anarchy." "Anarchy will be instituted." But it will be instituted only by there being more and more people who do not require protection from governmental power, and by there being more and more people who will be ashamed of applying this power.”
“When a child shuts down his painful emotional side, he also loses the ability to express his joyous side. Emotions are a whole. With anger comes the ability to express delight; with sadness comes the ability to express lightheartedness. This is the breadth of emotion that allows an adult to experience intimacy with a spouse, with God, and with his children”
“At this point in history when all things which concern man and the structure and elements of history itself are suddenly revealed to us in a new light, it behooves us in our scientific thinking to become masters of the situation, for it is not inconceivable that sooner than we suspect, as has often been the case before in history, this vision may disappear, the opportunity may be lost, and the world will once again present a static, uniform, and inflexible countenance.”

Source : "Ideology and Utopia". Book by Karl Mannheim, 1936.

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