"The 'Western' is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself."

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Source : André Bazin (2005). “What is Cinema?”, p.140, Univ of California Press

Andre Bazin

#Cinema Quotes #Genre Quotes #Western Quotes

“Science belongs to no one country.”
“Decades of scientific research has proven that carbon pollution is harmful to human health and causes global warming.”

Source : "A Dangerous Proposal" by Sen. Jeff Merkley, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 23, 2010.
“Mervyn Peake is a finer poet than Edgar Allan Poe, and he is therefore able to maintain his world of fantasy brilliantly through three novels. It (Gormenghast trilogy) is a very, very great work ... a classic of our age.”
“Kant regards the universalizability test for maxims as focused on a very special sort of situation: one where the agent is tempted to make an exception to a recognized duty out of self-preference. The universalizability test is supposed help the agent to see, in a particular case of moral judgment, that self-preference is not a satisfactory reason for exempting yourself from a duty you recognize. Kant thinks, as a matter of human nature, that this situation arises often enough and that we need a canon of judgment to guard against it.”
“In other words, what is supposedly found is an invention whose inventor is unaware of his act of invention, who considers it as something that exists independently of him; the invention then becomes the basis of his world view and actions.”
“Ah, when love dies, women lose two and a half inches in height.”

Source : M.C. Beaton (2009). “Agatha Raisin and Love, Lies and Liquor”, p.61, Hachette UK
“There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.”
“For better or for worse, I think my approach to jazz is very traditional, in one sense, but is [also] very out of fashion today. It's about the musicians, and it's about that magic that happens in the moment.”

Source : Source: revive-music.com

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