"Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, the romance of movies."

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

Antoine Fuqua

#Romance Quotes #Magic Quotes #Cinema Quotes

“By the anxieties and worries of this life Satan tries to dull man's heart and make a dwelling for himself there.”
“She had been looking all along for a friend, and it took her a while to discover that a lover was not a comrade and could never be - for a woman. And that no one would ever be that version of herself which she sought to reach out to and touch with an ungloved hand. There was only her own mood and whim, and if that was all there was, she decided to turn the naked hand toward it, discover it and let others become as intimate with their own selves as she was.”
“Struggle is the meaning of life; defeat or victory is in the hands of God. But struggle itself is manâ€™s duty and should be his joy.”
“Religion, in its most general view, is such a Sense of God in the soul, and such a conviction of our obligations to him, and of our dependence upon him, as shall engage us to make it our great care to conduct ourselves in a manner which we have reason to believe will be pleasing to him.”

Source : Philip Doddridge (1825). “The Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul: Illustrated in a Course of Serious and Practical Addresses”, p.21
“The fact that television and tourism have made the whole world accessible has created the illusion that we enjoy intimate knowledge of other places, when we barely scratch their surface. For the vast majority, the knowledge of Thailand or Sri Lanka acquired through tourism consists of little more than the whereabouts of the beach.”

Source : "We are globalised, but have no real intimacy with the rest of the world" by Martin Jacques, www.theguardian.com. April 16, 2006.
“If you can walk, you can run.”
“She looks sad. She looks angry. She looks different from everyone else I knowâ€”she cannot put on that happy face others wear when they know they are being watched. She doesnâ€™t put on a face for me, which makes me trust her somehow.”

Source : Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook: A Novel”, p.116, Macmillan
“Painting is as difficult as brain surgery. It's not that relaxing. But that's the discipline.”

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