"But everyone gets burnt, don't they? Certain things are outside of your control. I suppose the only thing you can learn as a director is to not put yourself into situations where it can get outside of your control. And that's what happened."

-- Neil Jordan

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“Conclusion: better to be a thinking monk than a postmodern thinker.”
“Hello and good-bye are not as simple as everyone thinks.”

Source : Cecil Castellucci (2011). “First Day on Earth”, p.71, Scholastic Inc.
“Usually I avoid sugar, but sugar is like the most deeply satisfying addictive thing ever.”
“Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.”
“At one hundred, surely you learn to overcome loss and griefâ€”or do they hound you till the bitter end?”

Source : André Aciman (2008). “Call Me by Your Name: A Novel”, p.74, Macmillan
“The revolution and women's liberation go together. We do not talk of women's emancipation as an act of charity or out of a surge of human compassion. It is a basic necessity for the revolution to triumph. Women hold up the other half of the sky.”

Source : Thomas Sankara (2007). “We are Heirs of the World's Revolutions: Speeches from the Burkina Faso Revolution, 1983-87”, Pathfinder Press
“I don't believe in a lot of things from the Bronze Age, but an eye for an eye does make a sort of symmetrical sense to me. I really believe that if somebody takes a life, that [death penalty] is what they should get. I also think it's a lot more humane than keeping people in a cage for the rest of their life.”
“It is no great misfortune to oblige ungrateful people, but an unsupportable one to be forced to be under an obligation to a scoundrel.”

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