"What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in the world."

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Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Emir Kusturica

#Art Quotes #Hollywood Quotes #Poison Quotes

“If you want to maximize your total potential ... you have to know yourself first.”
“I have discovered three things which know no geographical borders - classical music, American jazz, and applause as the sign of the public's favor.”
“The problem with fun is we really don't know what fun means at all.”

Source : Source: app.longform.org
“I'm quiet, and I don't enjoy watching horror flicks, so am I like Zeke? No way.”
“I started writing and photographing for different publications and finally ended up being the correspondent in South Asia, for the Geneva-based Journal de Geneve, which at one time used to be one of the best international newspapers in Europe.”
“Despite all their fears, we ask very little of the ones who never loved us. We do not ask for sympathy or pain or compassion. We simply want to know why.”

Source : Andrew Sean Greer (2007). “The Confessions of Max Tivoli: A Novel”, p.120, Macmillan
“I've nothing against kids reading anything they please, but I do have a problem with pink books for girls and black books for boys.”
“Beautiful and rich is an old friendship, Grateful to the touch as ancient ivory, Smooth as aged wine, or sheen of tapestry Where light has lingered, intimate and long. Full of tears and warm is an old friendship That asks no longer deeds of gallantry, Or any deed at all- save that the friend shall be Alive and breathing somewhere, like a song.”

Source : Eunice Tietjens (1929). “Leaves in Windy Weather”

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