"When we began filming, these people had legs, but as we were filming, they had been injured and they were brought to the hospital to have their legs amputated, and that's where we found them and asked them to come and be part of the film."

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Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#People Quotes #Legs Quotes #Film Quotes

“Life that only a few hours before had glowed with enthusiasm and exultation, suddenly paled and sickened.”

Source : Fritz Kreisler (2014). “Four Weeks In The Trenches; The War Story Of A Violinist [Illustrated Edition]”, p.36, Pickle Partners Publishing
“History is the land-mark by which we are directed into the true course of life.”
“Imagination is the organ through which the soul within us recognizes a soul without us; the spiritual eye by which the mind perceives and converses with the spiritualities of nature under her material forms; which tends to exalt even the senses into soul by discerning a soul in the objects of sense.”

Source : Henry Norman Hudson (1848). “Lectures on Shakespeare”, p.122
“I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand.”
“It's very important that the music has a sense of adventure to it, and that it's done by the seat of your pants. There's a kind of nervy element about it.”
“You know, they say in France that translation is like a woman: she is either beautiful or faithful.”
“As the places where Americans dwell become evermore depressing and impossible, Disneyworld is where they escape to worship the nation in the abstract, a cartoon capital of a cartoon republic enshrining the falsehoods, half-truths, and delusions that prop up the squishy thing the national character has become--for instance, that we are a nation of families; that we care about our fellow citizens; that history matters; that there is a place called home.”

Source : James Howard Kunstler (1993). “The geography of nowhere: the rise and decline of America's man-made landscape”
“When the passer's back foot hit the ground on his setup, I wanted the ball gone. If no one was open, if he had to buy time, I wanted him to bounce in place. And then I only wanted him scrambling as a last resort. When you bounce, you maintain your balance. When you start moving, you create an unnatural position for yourself. I want everything to be natural.”

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