"The true Filipino is a decolonized Filipino."

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Renato Constantino

#Filipino Quotes

“To me, Ennis stands for the conservative side of America. He's the biggest homophobe in the whole movie - culturally and psychologically - but by the time he admits his feelings, it's too late.”
“In the early days the Cubists' method of grasping an object was to go round and round it; the futurists declared that one had to get inside it. In my opinion the two views can be reconciled in a poetic cognition of the world. But to the very fact that they appealed to the creative depths in the painter by awakening in him hidden forces which were intuitive and vitalizing, the Futurist theories did more than the Cubist principles to open up unexplored and boundless horizons.”
“I like what Wallace Stevens said: "Poetry must almost successfully resist intelligence." I just change the word "poetry" to "my photographs".”
“If a person wants to be publicly gay, they should not be teaching in the public schools.”
“No one in the modern world controls the wealth or territory that Cleopatra did.”

Source : Stacy Schiff (2010). “Cleopatra: A Life”, p.287, Hachette UK
“Happiness is egotistical.”
“There was a time in my acting career, where I was trying to figure out if acting was the thing to do. You know? I was always on this journey of trying to learn more about humanity and people - using the characters and situations as guideposts. I could switch up and do another job as long as I'm continuing that same search and that same journey of revealing my connection to humanity and the universe. And directing gives me the opportunity to explore ALL these different lives and their connection to their environments and the people. And I get to connect to the wires of the universe.”
“We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream.”

Source : Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc

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