Nagisa Oshima Quotes
The concept of 'obscenity' is tested when one dares to look at something that he has an unbearable desire to see but has forbidden himself to look at. When one feels that everything that one had wanted to see has been revealed, 'obscenity' disappears, the taboo disappears as well, and there is a certain liberation.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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There's a time and place for everything. You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seeing that life has more meaning to it. The people that you love are the people you want to start trusting and start wanting them to trust you and start respecting them.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
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Even Gaddafi's adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.
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I'm a sucker for any band named after a work of literature. Los de Abajo take their name from Mariano Azuela's famous novel 'The Underdogs,' and that says a lot about who they are and the music they make.
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
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When you have a movie, you know who they start out as and where they go. But this is constantly changing, and you're growing with the character.
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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
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My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.
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Under the law, the government, whether it's state, local or federal, cannot give the Catholic Church or any religious institution money directly.
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It gives a different kind of high when, as an actor, I get to submit myself to the character I play.
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Nobody can tell you how the blues feel unless they have the blues. We all take it differently.
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Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable.
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No one is born evil; it's just the choices that they make.
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I would consider myself conservative but sensible and pragmatic.
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They studio were flabbergasted when they discovered how interested everybody was in 'those old people.' And now many upcoming projects feature older people; it's become a trend.
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First grade is the prelude of things to come, a life organized around frontal-lobe capacities: sitting still; keeping sphincters in check; being able to use words rather than acting out; understanding abstract and symbolic ideas; planning for tomorrow; and being in tune with teachers and classmates.
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If a powerful and benevolent spirit has shaped the destiny of this world, we can better discover that destiny from the words that have gathered up the heart's desire of the world, than from historical records, or from speculation, wherein the heart withers.
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Every director knows it is his job to be manipulative. When you make an edit, you are trying to manipulate.
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My transactions are above board: I do not have money deposited in other accounts and have transparently declared all assets. My real wealth is, however, my experience as cofounder of Infosys and as Aadhar Chairman, which gave away 60,000 crore identity cards to people of India as promised.
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The concept of 'obscenity' is tested when one dares to look at something that he has an unbearable desire to see but has forbidden himself to look at. When one feels that everything that one had wanted to see has been revealed, 'obscenity' disappears, the taboo disappears as well, and there is a certain liberation.
