Sergei Eisenstein Quotes
American capitalism finds its sharpest and most expressive reflection in the American cinema.
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I'm Australian! How much more alpha can you get?
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One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.
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Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable. Disposable in war; disposable in work. We need warriors and volunteer firefighters, so we label these men heroes.
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My job was to get a fair and open hearing to all ideas.
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I don't allow meat in my house or in my oven. My whole family is vegetarian - and although I've given my kids the choice to order meat at a restaurant when they reach five, they're not interested.
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If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?
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As to which is cuter, a puppy or a baby, I'm going to say that probably depends less on the particular puppy and more on the baby. I've seen pictures of me as an infant and consider myself lucky that nobody ever offered my parents the opportunity to trade me for a beagle.
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I mean the terrorists are - are like a pimple, like a boil. They'll go away.
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Every time you work is a challenge. There's a constant worry about it, and it's a side of acting I don't like.
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I think there's a couple of things going on. One is that Trump's relationship with his base is not the traditional relationship of a politician and the people who elected him, and the constituency, which is a relationship of some accountability, right? The idea is that the politicians are working for the people. They're public servants.
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I never predicted that I'd be a comedian, but it was something that came so naturally to me. I just felt good doing it.
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Nothing is taken lightly in 'The Hunger Games.'
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Readers are very, very savvy, and I don't want to insult them by making them think I'm too lazy to get it right.
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Never put a sock in a toaster.
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In the film industry, you are fictitious, just like the characters you play. It has a lot do with a perception about you, and not necessarily you. You are successful because people like that image of you on screen.
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There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites.
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Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business.
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You begin to take on the mentality of your coach. If he feels so confident, then I feel confident.
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Digital design is like painting, except the paint never dries.
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The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy.
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The structure of my novels has nothing to do with the narrative mode of cinema. My novels would be very difficult to film without ruining them completely. I think this is the area where writers need to place ourselves: from a position of absolute modernity and contemporaneity, creating a culture of objects which cinema cannot.
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The revolution eats its own. Capitalism re-creates itself.
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American capitalism finds its sharpest and most expressive reflection in the American cinema.
