"The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure the dominance of its films in foreign markets - an achievement generally pushed home politically, by writing clauses into various treaties and aid packages."

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Source : Fredric Jameson (2009). “Valences of the Dialectic”, Verso Books

Fredric Jameson

#War Quotes #Home Quotes #Writing Quotes

“If you send up a weather vane or put your thumb up in the air every time you want to do something different, to find out what people are going to think about it, you're going to limit yourself. That's a very strange way to live.”
“Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries.”
“The scientific method is the ultimate elegant explanation. It is the ultimate foundation for anything worthy of the name "explanation". It makes no sense to talk about explanations without having a process for deciding which are right and which are wrong, and in a broad sense that is what the scientific method is about. All of the other wonderful explanations celebrated here owe their origin and credibility to the process by which they are verified-the scientific method.”
“Rock and roll isn't a career or hobby - it's a life force ... it's just something I have to do.”
“Don't dream of winning, train for it.”

Source : "Mo Farah on loneliness of long-distance runner: I eat, sleep, train, rest, look at the walls". Interview with Alex Spink, www.mirror.co.uk. September 7, 2013.
“Manipulating [is] just the way to proceed, to convince that what you're doing is important. Is nothing more than that. Everyone is manipulating.”

Source : Source: www.cbsnews.com
“Maybe every two films you need to do documentary to tell what you really want to tell and not be limited by the medium. With documentary you don't create the reality you have to hunt the reality.”

Source : Source: www.indiewire.com
“Thus, while I thought myself employed only in forming a Nomenclature, and while I proposed to myself nothing more than to improve the chemical language, my work transformed itself by degrees, without my being able to prevent it, into a treatise upon the Elements of Chemistry.”

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