"I have no idea why one of our most original filmmakers would want to spend two years of his life translating someone else's movie from Spanish into English. And it wasn't such a good film in Spanish, either."

-- Joel Siegel

#Years Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Two Quotes

“What makes an actor, I think, is a combination of a deep curiosity about life and a case of the crazies.”
“The Spanish voyager, as his caravel ploughed the adjacent seas, might give full scope to his imagination, and dream that beyond the long, low margin of forest which bounded his horizon lay hid a rich harvest for some future conqueror; perhaps a second Mexico with its royal palace and sacred pyramids, or another Cuzco with its temple of the Sun, encircled with a frieze of gold. Haunted by such visions, the ocean chivalry of Spain could not long stand idle.”

Source : Francis Parkman, David Levin (1983). “France and England in North America: Pioneers of France in the New World. The Jesuits of North America in the seventeenth century. La Salle and the discovery of the Great West. The old régime in Canada”, p.27, Library of America
“Surround yourself with friends who only call you a superstar”
“I was so focused and so driven, there was this fire inside of me that was burning so brightly.”
“It's like church over here. It's like church in here. First of all, give an honor to God and our Lord and Savior Barack Obama,”

Source : "Jamie Foxx Calls Barack Obama 'Our Lord and Savior' at Soul Train Awards, Catholic Group Fires Back" by Bruna Nessif, www.eonline.com. November 26, 2012.
“If a chick wants to know who makes my shoes, she's got to take them off my feet and look inside.”
“All sweeping assertions are erroneous.”
“Aye, fight and you may die. Run, and you'll liveâ€¦at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willing' to trade all the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never takeâ€¦OUR FREEDOM?!”

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