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🇨🇱Alejandro Jodorowsky

Religion

Surrealism

b. 1929

"That is the marvel of true art, that no one has yet found a way to commercialize it."

"I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting."

"All that stuff with the tabloids is a kind of luxury tax I pay for all the good things I do in my life."

"The main objective is to learn to think crudely. Crude thinking is the great one’s thinking."

"I have to thank Eddie Murphy, 'cause after I saw him do the Klumps , I said, "I'm going to try my hand at a female character." It was the brilliance of Eddie Murphy. I need to write him a check. Say thank you"

"I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humour."

"Self-portraiture is something one should never get involved in, since it is wrong to lie even though one endeavours to tell the truth."

"Augusto Boal, Founder of the Theatre of the Oppressed, Dies at 78, Democracy Now!"

"The film needs to be slower and duller at the start so that the viewers who walked into the wrong theatre have time to leave before the main action starts"

"His death made him famous, he can come back now."

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🇬🇧Tony Richardson (American football)

Entertainment

1928–1991

"Given what I do for a living, my body is my temple — and you need to put the right things in your body. If you are not eating the right things or getting the proper amount of rest, you won't be productive."

"I'm sure there isn't an after-life. If there were, Ivor Novello would have got a message to us."

"A comedian is not a man who opens a funny door. He opens a door funny."

"When all the hope is gone, there is no reason for pessimism."

"The work of a director can be summed up in two very simple words. Why and How."

"Ever since the Reformation, there's a sense in which the road to atheism was paved not with science, but with religious intentions."

"It is a mistake to believe in my presence.. .If I take a seat at a party, I can see, even from afar, that only a ghost is sitting there."

"Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world."

"We had so little to eat, we were freezing all the time, but the sheer joy of being able to act fed our souls."

"It’s gone away from the thing that I hate, and now it’s more the thing that I don’t know how to do at all, or the thing that’s really hard to do…"

"If you are anxious about death, then you don't have a sense of the oneness of things—you feel that after death, you will be no more."

"Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise."

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🇨🇺Michael John Garcés

Entertainment

b. 1967

"…The play does not purport to be the play of the community—it’s really about that artist’s idiosyncratic voice and what that encounter elicits in them…"

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🇺🇸Oscar Hammerstein II

Music

1895–1960

"He's a meticulously hard worker and yet he'll roam the grass of his farm for hours and sometimes for days before he can bring himself to put a word on paper."

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🇦🇹Herbert von Karajan

Music

1908–1989

"If I tell the Berliners to step forward, they do it. If I tell the Viennese to step forward, they do it, but then they ask why."

"Anytime the western countries go to war in the Middle East, it becomes a religious war."

"…I think if you want to make a recipe for making a writer, have them feel a little out of place everywhere, have them be an observer kind of all the time, and that's a great way to make a writer…"

"Believe it or not, it’s easier for me nowadays to be outside this country than in this country, because when I go outside I’m in hotels with elevators and services of all kinds, and it’s not such a hardship."

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