"I had developed this habit of writing scenarios as a hobby. I would find out which stories had been sold to be made into films and I would write my own treatment and then compare it."

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Source : Satyajit Ray, Bert Cardullo (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”, p.96, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Satyajit Ray

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“More philosophically-minded critics regarded Einstein's argument for relativity as little more than a logical bait-and-switch ploy: "[T]he supposition of most expounders of the Special Theory, that Einstein has proved the relativity of simultaneity in general - or that his 'simultaneity' is something more than a logical artefact - must manifestly be given up.”
“My family had all kinds of complications in relationships. I would like to meet the person who did not. Since when is being absolutely perfect what being a human is? What do we gain from that?”
“We, in the late '60s, '70s and '80s, are acting like we have just discovered freedom and liberation. But I'm sure that many women have worked for that for such a long time.”

Source : "AUTHOR INTERVIEW -- Life and Love in the Mexican Revolution / `Lovesick' author puts a passionate woman in the center of the conflict" by Alix Madrigal, www.sfgate.com. May 4, 1997.
“When you're young, you can be mislead by older people, who know how to manipulate you.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com
“Act like you expect to get into the end zone.”
“The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.”
“I live in a small apartment in London, not some big house with a lot of security. I don't like too much security. There's no freedom. I'm a person, not some precious diamond that needs guarding every second.”
“Love, which is quickly kindled in the gentle heart, seized this man for the fair form that was taken from me, the manner still hurts me. Love which absolves no beloved one from loving, seized me so strongly with his charm that, as thou seest, it does not leave me yet”

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