"What is religion? I want to remove the chaff from the grain. For me it is not what it is for the common people. If you take away certain social customs, they think you have taken away religion. For me it means purifying it."

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Asghar Ali Engineer

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“What happens when you broadcast the truth is you piss everyone off!”
“I love cinema. It is the most important thing to me. Life is cinema. It has been this way since I was a child of about 14, and I was going every day to see the movies.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“If there's a heaven upon the earth, a fellow knows it when He's been away from home a week, and then gets back again.”

Source : Will Carleton (2001). “Farm Ballads”, p.72, Applewood Books
“I think there has to be an underlying sexuality. There has to be a perverseness to the clothes. There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance. It's like a Story of O. I am not big on women looking naive. There has to be a sinister aspect, whether it's melancholy of sadomasochist. I think everyone has a deep sexuality, and sometimes it's good to use a little of it-and sometimes a lot of it-like a masquerade.”
“We must not pick and choose which commandments we think are important to keep but acknowledge all of Godâ€™s commandments. We must stand firm and steadfast, having perfect confidence in the Lordâ€™s consistency and perfect trust in His promises.”
“Horror is my motor. It gets to me on an animal level and satisfies my impulse toward scenario building.”

Source : Source: www.sfsignal.com
“I don't like cheap shots, I really don't.”
“I feel very strongly that I am under the influence of things or questions which were left incomplete and unanswered by my parents and grandparents and more distant ancestors. It often seems as if there were an impersonal karma within a family which is passed on from parents to children. It has always seemed to me that I had to answer questions which fate had posed to my forefathers, and which had not yet been answered, or as if I had to complete, or perhaps continue, things which previous ages had left unfinished.”

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