A holiday is when you celebrate something that’s all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there’s nothing left to celebrate but the dead.
ABRAHAM POLONSKY
Indians don’t last in prison. They weren’t born for it like the whites.
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A holiday is when you celebrate something that’s all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there’s nothing left to celebrate but the dead.
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First of all, directing is an idea that you have of a total flow of images that are going on, which are incidentally actors, words, and objects in space.
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It’s an idea you have of yourself, like the idea you have of your own personality which finds its best representation in the world in terms of specific flows of imaginary images. That’s what directing is.
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It’s perversion. Don’t you see what it is? It’s not natural. To go to great expense for something you want, that’s natural. To reach out to take it, that’s human, that’s natural.
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Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal.
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I’ll kill you with my own hands rather than let you put the mark of Cain on my brother!
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This is Wall Street, and today is important. Because tomorrow, July 4th, I intended to make my first million dollars–an excitingday in a man’s life. The enterprise was slightly illegal.
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If you don’t get killed, it’s a lucky day for anybody.
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Money has no moral opinions.
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A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn’t have said.
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D’you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?
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What are you gonna do? Kill me? Everybody dies.
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I don’t take no dive for nobody. Whaddya think I am, a tanker!
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You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
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