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.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYI don’t take no dive for nobody. Whaddya think I am, a tanker!
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What are you gonna do? Kill me? Everybody dies.
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Today in Germany, everyone is being watched–even the watchers.
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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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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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I don’t take no dive for nobody. Whaddya think I am, a tanker!
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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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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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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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What do you mean “gangsters”? It’s business.
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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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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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Indians don’t last in prison. They weren’t born for it like the whites.
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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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A holiday is when you celebrate something that’s all finished up.
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