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“Ever since the destruction of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258, the Muslim world has been in slow decline relative to the west. With Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and the creeping British annexation of Muslim India, that decline took on a malign aspect.”
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“I think it was important that I learned to love to dance eventually for its own sake, as opposed to wanting to be a ballerina.”
Source : "Ballerina of the Century". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. December 16, 1990. 
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“When we sing, our hearts can lift and fly, over the troubled waters and over the years,”
Source : Judy Collins (2011). “Sweet Judy Blue Eyes: My Life in Music”, p.4, Crown Archetype
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“It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing.”
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“You have to examine a scene on the page first. Then you get into the basics of acting: Who are you? Who are you talking to? How do you feel about that person?”
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“Orson Welles lists Citizen Kane as his best film, Alfred Hitchcock opts for Shadow of a Doubt, and Sir Carol Reed chose The Third Man - and I'm in all of them.”
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“I know what the world exists for, but I know not how it came into existence. I see the design, but not the designer. I understand the question, but not the questioner.”
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“As long as you're fully present in what you're doing at the moment, you're doing it.”
Source : "Vanessa Paradis, Romain Duris & Director Pascal Chaumeil Interview Heartbreaker". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. September 07, 2010.
