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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There are several paths one can take, but not every path is open to you.
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I don't care for the applause one gets by saying what others are thinking; I want actually to change people's thoughts. Power over people's minds is the main personal desire of my life; and this sort of power is not acquired by saying popular things.
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I don't have a burning desire to act, strangely enough. I don't know that if I hadn't been an actor as a young person, I don't know that I ever would have chosen this because it's not really my personality.
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But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge: for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men.
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You gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, know when to run.
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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.
