"I am a child of cinema, and I am a cineaste, so everything I do is a reference to something I've heard or experienced or seen. And we all do it, we all steal. The ones who claim they don't, are obviously lying, because you do. You just have to make it your own."

-- Nicolas Winding Refn

#Children Quotes #Lying Quotes #Cinema Quotes

“Good people in the West have often failed to distinguish between Islam and Islamism ...”
“It never occurred to me that Iâ€™d be typecast, although I was. And I never thought of the role as a commercial product, because I wasâ€¦ well, I was playing this slightly messianic alien. He isnâ€™t violent, he doesnâ€™t get his leg over the girl, he doesnâ€™t steal, and heâ€™s rather wry, and adorable, and mysterious. Heâ€™s lived for 900 years or something. He lives the life of the old patriarchs of the Old Testament. Thatâ€™s not commercial. Heâ€™s special.”
“I'm a biographer; I can live with a little hyperbole.”
“All money does with an empty heart is allow you to be miserable in style.”
“What really swings is the music of the United States, Cuba, the Caribbean and vicinity, and, of course, Brazil. The rest is all waltzes.”
“The way the bankers have kind of toppled the way money is distributed, and taken most of it into their own hands, is as good as Stalin or Hitler.”
“If you put a woman in prison for four years when she's young and make her pay her time in a horrible place and she wants to come out and work, and become a mother and be a contributor to society and pay taxes and you never give her that chance. There is something un-Canadian about that.”
“Time doesn't heal scars as most people commonly think. It simply makes them firmer, stiffer. One must accept it and not hope to mend and return to what he or she once was.”

Source : V. C. Andrews (1999). “Olivia”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

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