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"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
- Jimi Hendrix
People to whom I owe an amends... and others from the past.
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And the love that I feel
is so far away
I'm a bad dream
that I just had today.
And you swear
there'll be no bad news
if we stay, if we stay
without looking back.
And the saviors
who are fast asleep,
They wait for you.
the potential you'll be,
that you'll never see
the promises you'll only make
So don't believe
everything you read,
in that diary
of yours.
Come on you target
for faraway laughter,
come on you stranger,
you legend,
you martyr,
and shine!
"You know I think that movies are a conspiracy? I mean it. I mean it, they are actually a conspiracy because they set you up, Florence. They set you up from the time you're a little kid. They set you up to believe in everything. They set you up to believe in ideals, and strength, and good guys, and romance, and of course... love. Love, Florence... So, you believe it, right? You go out, you start looking. Doesn't happen, you keep looking. You get a job, like us, and you spend a lot of time fixing up things, your apartment and jazz, and you learn how to be feminine, you know, 'quotes' feminine. You learn how to cook... But there's no Charles Boyer in my life, Florence. I never even met a Charles Boyer. I never met Clark Gable, I never met Humphrey Bogart. I never met any of them, you know who I mean, I mean they don't exist, Florence, that's the truth. But the movies set you up, you know? They set you up, and no matter how bright you are, you believe it." - Gena Rowlands, Minnie and Moskowitz
"...I could also see great similarities between a church and a movie house. Both are places for people to come together and share a common experience. And I believe there's a spirituality in films, even if it's not one which can supplant faith. I find that over the years many films address themselves to the spiritual side of man's nature... It's as if movies answer an ancient quest for the common unconscious. They fulfill a spiritual need that people have - to share a common memory."
- Martin Scorsese
"Custom here requires that you try to 'sell' everything, from a shrug of the shoulders to an idea... so you are constantly either a buyer or a seller, you sell your piss, as it were, to the urinal."
- Peter Lorre to Bertolt Brecht, on Hollywood.
"There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way
actors
work." - Robert De Niro
“If you’re so clever, what am I thinking now?â€
“You’re thinking how can I kill a tiger armed only with a biro.â€
“No.â€
“You’re thinking if I crash land in a jungle will I be able to eat my own shoes.â€
“No. And you can’t.â€
“What are you thinking, Gareth?â€
“I was just wondering whether there will ever be a boy born who can swim faster than a shark.â€
"The seed of our destruction will blossom in the desert, the alexin of our cure grows by a mountain rock, and our lives are haunted by a Georgia slattern, because a London cutpurse went unhung. Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years. The minute-winning days, like flies, buzz home to death, and every moment is a window on all time." - Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel
"I know that the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started... If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry." - Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
"...For there exists a deep gulf between genius and the teaching profession. Anyone with a touch of genius seems to his teacher a freak from the very first. As far as teachers are concerned they define young geniuses as those who are bad, disrespectful, smoke at fourteen, fall in love at fifteen, can be found at sixteen hanging out in bars, read forbidden books, write scandalous essays, occasionally stare down a teacher in class, are marked in the attendance books as rebels, and are budding candidates for room arrest." - Herman Hesse Beneath the Wheel
"What they don't teach you in art school is how your whole life is about discovering who you already were." - Chuck Palahniuk Diary
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Raoul Wallenberg.
Mukhtaran Bibi.
Hugh Thompson,
Glenn Andreotta,
and Lawrence Colburn.