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Ben Dreyfuss
"American films are the best films. This is a fact. Cinema is - along with Jazz - the great American art form. And cinema in a very real sense created the American identity that has been exported around the world." --
Source : "We Love America, and You Should, Too". James West and Ben Dreyfuss conversation, www.motherjones.com. July 3, 2015.
Ben Dreyfuss
#Art Quotes
#Real Quotes
#Identity Quotes
“You don't want your credibility banana to turn brown, but you do want to speak out about what you believe in.”
“I see what's behind everything the director wants to do.”
“Oh, must we dream our dreams and have them, too?”
Source : Elizabeth Bishop (2015). “Poems”, p.91, Macmillan
“How often we forget to dedicate ourselves to that which truly matters! We forget that we are children of God.”
“What is happening is not ideal. Sometimes nothing goes smoothly in the preparation for fights, and that is when you have to show what kind of champion you are and deal with whatever is put in front of you. This is just another obstacle, and if it does go to court then I will be as equally determined to overcome it.”
Source : "Court threat to Hatton unification bout". www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2005.
“I am positive I have a soul; nor can all the books with which materialists have pestered the world ever convince me to the contrary.”
“That's one of the things about getting older isn't it? You suddenly realise that you are what you set out to be. And there are no role models any more.”
“Blindsight is excellent. It's state-of-the-art science fiction: smart, dark and it grabs you by the throat from page one. Like a C J Cherryh book it makes you feel the danger of the hostile environment (or lack of one) out there. And it plays with some fascinating possibilities in human development, and some disconcerting ideas about human consciousness. What else can I say? Thanks for giving me the privilege of reading this.”
