"Actors are always looking for new territory, and playing an African figure would be really a great symbol for me because of my Senegalese roots. It would make my parents proud, so of course I'd do it."

-- Omar Sy

#Parent Quotes #Proud Quotes

“If you will not stand with Israel, then I will not stand with you”
“Home-run hitters drive Cadillacs”
“There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.”
“Alas, how wretched is the being who depends on the stability of public favour!”
“Inspiration comes unawares, from unaccountable sources that have nothing to do with planning or intelligence. Let it cool ever so slightly, and you are left, pen or brush in hand, with no inspiration at all. Gifted people need not, therefore, make a song and dance about being or supposing themselves superior. They simply happened to be born with that fortunate, subconscious equipment of theirs, and the mystery exists independently of intelligence or ambition.”
“Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life.”
“There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go back to the old home to eat saleratus biscuits and marvel how much nearer to the porch the old pump looks than it used to. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.”
“It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against oneâ€™s own body... On the battlefield, in the torture chamber, on a sinking ship, the issues that you are fighting for are always forgotten, because the body swells up until it fills the universe, and even when you are not paralysed by fright or screaming with pain, life is a moment-to-moment struggle against hunger or cold or sleeplessness, against a sour stomach or an aching tooth.”

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