"The Orient and Islam have a kind of extrareal, phenomenologically reduced status that puts them out of reach of everyone except the Western expert. From the beginning of Western speculation about the Orient, the one thing th orient could not do was to represent itself. Evidence of the Orient was credible only after it had passed through and been made firm by the refining fire of the Orientalistâ€™s work."

-- Edward Said

#Fire Quotes #Islam Quotes #Experts Quotes

“There was a time when I looked to other people for recognition, because I didn't have enough confidence to trust my own judgment. Now I'm not looking for reassurance, because I realize how fickle people are. My own strength is the best I can have.”
“My experience growing up in London and growing up in a working class background, is that when people are down and out, that's when they're probably the funniest. They have to be. That's what they do to cope, to find joy, cause they don't feel the joy inside. Or they use humor to keep people out.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I was thinking about that, about what lines you'd be willing to cross if someone took your loved one or child”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Finally I want to say this: if you are a kid and you are out there and you are chubby and not so cute and nerdy and shy and invisible and in pain, whatever your race, whatever your gender, whatever your sexual orientation, Iâ€™m standing here to tell you: you are not alone. Your tribe of people, they are out there in the world. Waiting for you.”

Source : Shonda Rhimes (2015). “Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person”, p.239, Simon and Schuster
“IN THE CINEMA A DIRECTOR EXPRESSES HIS INDIVIDUALITY FIRST AND FOREMOST THROUGH HIS SENSE OF TIME, THROUGH RHYTHM. RHYTHM GIVES COLOUR TO A WORK BY DISTINGUISHABLE STYLISTIC CHARACTERISTICS. RHYTHM MUST ARISE NATURALLY IN A FILM, A FUNCTION OF THE DIRECTOR'S INNATE SENSE OF LIFE AND COMMENSURATE WITH HIS QUEST FOR TIME.”
“I will see 100 or 200 and I will take my time with them and I audition them for the two main roles. If I like what I see, but they're not exactly right for the role, I'll think well I have this other role that might work for them. Sometimes I will write a role for them because I want to work with them because they're so good.”
“The world is my country, the human race is my race. The spirit of man is my god, the future of man is my heaven.”

Source : F.R. Scott (2013). “Leaving the Shade of the Middle Ground: The Poetry of F.R. Scott”, p.19, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
“We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.”

Source : William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son”, p.97

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