"Communists liked history very much. It just had to be the right history. They liked to remember it selectively."

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Source : Victoria Finlay (2006). “Jewels: A Secret History”, p.34, Ballantine Books

Victoria Finlay

#Remember Quotes #Communist Quotes

“Raksin worked for Alfred Hitchcock, about whom one of the most famous Raksin anecdotes was spoken. The legendary director declared he wanted no music at all for the oceanic Lifeboat, because he felt audiences would wonder where the music was coming from in the middle of the sea. Raksin said, Ask Hitch where the cameras are coming from.”
“Its difficult to do a genre film well, and it doesnt matter if youre talking vampire movies or Dawn of the Dead or The Thing or Escape From New York. Those kind of movies, they understand what the old-school B-movie is supposed to be, they get the throwback of it.”
“It was a tough school. The kids on the debating team took steroids!”
“I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.”

Source : "Chat: Cara Buono". Interview with Toby Tanser, www.runnersworld.com. November 1, 2006.
“Music waves eternal wands,-- Enchantress of the souls of mortals!”

Source : Edmund Clarence Stedman (1869). “The Blameless Prince: And Other Poems”, p.122
“It was all quite ghastly and I was very fond of it.”
“Is that what death would feel like? The nicest, warmest, heaviest never-ending nap? If thatâ€™s what itâ€™s like, I wouldnâ€™t mind.”
“I put everything I had into it - all my feelings and everything I'd learned in 46 years of living, about family life and fathers and children. And my feelings about racial justice and inequality and opportunity.”

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