"When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris."

-- Jean-Jacques Annaud

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“A dining room table with children's eager hungry faces around it, ceases to be a mere dining room table, and becomes an altar.”
“To look at life without words is not to lose the ability to form words- to think, remember, and plan. To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about. One who talked incessantly, without stopping to look and listen, would repeat himself ad nauseam. It is the same with thinking, which is really silent talking. It is not, by itself, open to the discovery of anything new, for its only novelties are simply arrangements of old words and ideas.”
“Nothing beats novel writing because it's complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has that level of control.”
“I have a great husband, great parents and in-laws, and I have help with a nanny. It's not easy, but there are others who do it every day and don't have a high-profile job as I do.”
“We have to realize our black heritage in order to give us strength to move on and progress. But as far as returning to the old African culture, it's unnecessary and it's not advantageous in many respects. We believe that culture itself will not liberate us. We're going to need some stronger stuff.”
“They're pushing credit cards. They don't take Visa, but they do take American Express, or they don't take this one, but they take that one, or you'd better bring this one, or if you forget who you are, look on your credit card; it will be there.”
“And war is wonderful, isn't it? For it's war, isn't it, that the Americans have been preparing for and are preparing for this way step by step. In order to defend this senseless manufacture from all competition that could not fail to arise on all sides.”
“Who has gone hungry learns to think of the future and of the children.”

Source : Carolina Maria de Jesus (2005). “Beyond All Pity”

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