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    Ingmar Bergman
    “Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.”
    ― Ingmar Bergman
    tags: art, dreaming, dreams, film, music, souls
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    “Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged by male energy.”
    ― Björk
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    Werner Herzog
    “Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.”
    ― Werner Herzog
    tags: academia, film, movies, passion, scholars, scholarship
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    “Every scene should be able to answer three questions: "Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?”
    ― David Mamet, Bambi vs. Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business
    tags: drama, film, writing
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    Jennifer Estep
    “You're just jealous."

    "Hardly. Been there, done you. Adequate, but unremarkable.”
    ― Jennifer Estep, Spider's Bite
    tags: jealousy, sex, snarky-remarks
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    Carrie Fisher
    “Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. ”
    ― Carrie Fisher
    tags: envy, jealousy, resentment, spite
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    Bette Midler
    “The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.”
    ― Bette Midler
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    Julie Delpy
    “I believe if there's any kind of God it wouldn't be in any of us, not you or me but just this little space in between. If there's any kind of magic in this world it must be in the attempt of understanding someone sharing something. I know, it's almost impossible to succeed but who cares really? The answer must be in the attempt.”
    ― Julie Delpy, Before Sunrise & Before Sunset: Two Screenplays
    tags: god, share, world
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    Toni Morrison
    “You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
    ― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
    tags: burdens, empowerment, flying, freedom, unburdening, weight
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    Coco Chanel
    “If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.”
    ― Coco Chanel
    tags: accomplishment, aspirations, drive, flying, goals, wings
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    Jim Morrison
    “Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.”
    ― Jim Morrison
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    Jim Morrison
    “Whoever controls the media, controls the mind”
    ― Jim Morrison
    tags: control, media, thinking
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    Jim Morrison
    “Time to live, time to lie, time to laugh, and time to die. Take it easy baby. Take it as it comes.”
    ― Jim Morrison
    tags: jim-morrison
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    Jim Morrison
    “I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.”
    ― Jim Morrison
    tags: jim-morrison
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    Jim Morrison
    “Out here on the perimeter there are no stars. Out here we is stoned. Immaculate.”
    ― Jim Morrison
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
    and rightdoing there is a field.
    I'll meet you there.

    When the soul lies down in that grass
    the world is too full to talk about.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: friendship, love, peace, silence, soul, zen
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    William Shakespeare
    “I can see he's not in your good books,' said the messenger.
    'No, and if he were I would burn my library.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
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    William Shakespeare
    “He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. He that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
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    William Shakespeare
    “I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
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    William Shakespeare
    “Officers, what offence have these men done?

    DOGBERRY
    Marry, sir, they have committed false report; moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily, they are slanders; sixth and lastly, they have
    belied a lady; thirdly, they have verified unjust things; and, to conclude, they are lying knaves.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
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    William Shakespeare
    “Love me!... Why?”
    ― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
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    William Shakespeare
    “Ha. "Against my will I am sent to bid you come into dinner." There's a double meaning in that.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
    tags: benedick-love-humor-shakespeare
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
    78526 likes



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