"There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut."
-Martin Scorsese
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"Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.“
-Martin Scorsese
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"Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film."
-Martin Scorsese
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"My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else."
-Martin Scorsese
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"Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt."
-Martin Scorsese
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"A lot of what I'm obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and their father."
-Martin Scorsese
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"The cinema began with a passionate, physical relationship between celluloid and the artists and craftsmen and technicians who handled it, manipulated it, and came to know it the way a lover comes to know every inch of the body of the beloved. No matter where the cinema goes, we cannot afford to lose sight of its beginnings."
-Martin Scorsese
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"When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits."
-Allen Klein
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"I start thinking about life after death. I've got to quit thinking about it because it's very deep. Very deep. Sometimes you start thinking about it, and you don't feel like you want to be alive, so I don't like to get all quiet."
-David Ortiz
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"What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy."
-Mario Puzo
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"So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb."
-Alastair Campbell
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"I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted."
-Fiona Shaw
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"Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death."
-John Thorn
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