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 POLONSKYIf you don’t get killed, it’s a lucky day for anybody.
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Kids win this’n’that every day. Thousands of them. One out of a hundred fights professionally. One out of a thousand’s worth watchin’, one out of a million’s worth coffee and doughnuts.
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But to get your pleasure from not taking, from cheating yourself deliberately like my brother did today, from not getting, from not taking.
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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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A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn’t have said.
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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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If you don’t get killed, it’s a lucky day for anybody.
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I want to be a fighter. So fight for something! Not for money.
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Don’t you see what a black thing that is for a man to do? How it is to hate yourself?
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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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I don’t take no dive for nobody. Whaddya think I am, a tanker!
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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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Money has no moral opinions.
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Do you know what it’s like to love and be alone?
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D’you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?
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You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
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