"I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's blocking the way for industrial progress, or b) the noble innocent that knows all and is another cliche. I wanted him to be a complicated human being."

-- Jim Jarmusch

#Block Quotes #Character Quotes #Progress Quotes

“The good thing about rules is if you have to do an interview, and you make some rules for that interview, like, "I can only ask him about five years of his life or her life," it narrows down your story. It's the same thing with acting. In my profession, if I say, "These are the rules for this character," all of the sudden, you create life.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“If Stalin could only see us now, with the American Ambassador here, he'd turn in his grave.”

Source : "MAYDAY: Eisenhower, Khrushchev, and the U-2 Affair" by Michael R. Beschloss, (p. 42), 1986.
“As things now stand, the office is a slightly meaner battleground than the home. Male bosses seem to dominate their women underlings as they would never dominate their wives.”
“I still love doing that. There's nothing like being able to go back and play volleyball again with a team cause, I can have my volleyball in my New York apartment but we can't do so much there.”
“The art of today is that which really belongs to us: it is our own reflection. In condemning it we but condemn ourselves.”

Source : Okakura Kakuzo (2000). “The Book of Tea the Illustrated Classic Edition”, p.81, Tuttle Publishing
“It is at once by way of poetry and through poetry, as with music, that the soul glimpses splendors from beyond the tomb; and when an exquisite poem brings one's eyes to the point of tears, those tears are not evidence of an excess of joy, they are witness far more to an exacerbated melancholy, a disposition of the nerves, a nature exiled among imperfect things, which would like to possess, without delay, a paradise revealed on this very same earth.”
“There may be women to emerge who will be able to formulate a new and possible concept that homosexual persecution and condemnation has at its roots not only social ignorance, but a philosophically active anti-feminist dogma.”
“I'm eating a lot of organic proteins and vegetables! Maintaining a healthy, balanced diet is my No. 1 priority because I'm nursing my daughter.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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