"When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it."

-- Oliver Stone

#Children Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“This fraternity... makes it possible... for so many millions of people, not so much to kill, as willingly to die for such limited imaginings.”

Source : Benedict Anderson (2006). “Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism”, p.7, Verso
“I'll just take amusement at being a paradox.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“I remained to much inside my head and ended up losing my mind”
“Though all humans need both intimacy and independence, women tend to focus on the first and men on the second. It is as if their lifeblood ran in different directions.”

Source : Deborah Tannen (2013). “You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation”, p.26, Harper Collins
“Intercourse is after all man's best teacher. "Know thyself" is an excellent maxim; but even self-knowledge cannot be perfected in closets and cloisters--nor amid lake scenery, and on the sunny side of the mountains. Men who seldom mix with their fellow-creatures are almost sure to be one-sided--the victims of fixed ideas, that sometimes lead to insanity.”
“I was in love with everything- I wanted to look with love at the angry people so that their eyes would be forced to respond; and I wanted to bring gifts to the envious and tell them that I am worthless.”
“But what truly horsey girls discover in the end is that boyfriends, husbands, children, and careers are the substitute-for horses”
“With a few exceptions, Fellini's films have failure and despair running through them: Life continues, but I can't imagine 'Felliniesque' as an exclusively uplifting adjective. Fellini's best films are the ones that distill this essence -- the paradoxical quality of melancholic ecstasy, a surreal, bittersweet vitality -- to perfection.”

Source : The Los Angeles Times, April 2003.

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