"Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates."

-- Werner Herzog

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“It is the nature of stone to be satisfied. It is the nature of water to want to be somewhere else.”
“It was easy for me to be ridiculed and for both men and women to perceive that maybe I'm a bit crazy because I'm educated in the West and I have lost some of my basic decency as an African woman.”
“"It is part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees."”

Source : "The Reader's Digest Great Encyclopedic Dictionary", Special Supplement (p. 2047), 1966.
“May tender memories soften your grief, May fond recollection bring you relief, And may you find comfort and peace in the thought Of the joy that knowing your loved one brought... For time and space can never divide Or keep your loved one from your side. When memory paints in colors true, the happy hours that belonged to you.”
“You can find the sacred in the most ordinary of things.”
“I also know that I am not a great technician.”
“Kids are all computer-savvy. Sit down and write to your parents on the computer. And just say, I have some questions and I'm scared. There's some stuff I don't know and I really need to talk to you about sex. Tear it off and put it on their pillow. They'll read it.”
“Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress.”

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