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“Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.”
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“We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit.”
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“Life cannot be against you, for you are Life itself. Life can only seem to go against the ego's projections, which are rarely the truth.”
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“When I read or hear of the mutual injuries of England and Ireland, I fancy it would have been a blessed thing had the sea never flowed between the two countries. Had they been all in one, surely there would have been more unity between them of interests and of feelings. But let us hope that days of peace and general enlightenment will arrive by ways past man's finding out.”
Source : Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters”, p.139
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“A film in which the speech and sound effects are perfectly synchronized and coincide with their visual image on the screen is absolutely contrary to the aims of cinema. It is a degenerate and misguided attempt to destroy the real use of the film and cannot be accepted as coming within the true boundaries of the cinema.”
Source : Paul Rotha, Robert Kruger, Duncan J. Petrie (1999). “A Paul Rotha Reader”, p.60, University of Exeter Press
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“If you feel good, you're going to look good.”
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“Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old; who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.”
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“First, do it. Second, do it well. Third, do it well and fast — that means you're a professional.”