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Roland Joffe

"Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present?"

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"Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present?"

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Roland Joffe
"I cannot forget a conversation that I had with an elderly couple from the tribe. They asked me whether I would kill them after I had finished. When I asked them why they asked that, they replied, Because you white men always do!"

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Roland Joffe
"Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present?"

History

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Roland Joffe
"Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists."

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Roland Joffe
"When you look at our world, the truth is that we're all under the influence of politics."

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Roland Joffe
"They suggested I should introduce an element of reincarnation in the story. At first, I thought that was silly. But then, this whole time dimension began to fascinate me."

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Roland Joffe
"Eventually, the tribe developed so much confidence in me that they invited me to be their chieftain."

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Roland Joffe
"I don't really say much about reviewers. It's a very tough job to get all of the depth of a movie all at once."

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Roland Joffe
"Good directing is about getting the performance to be just what's right for the movie."

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Roland Joffe
"I think that will be a lot of fun for audiences to get the same stream of consciousness that was going through my head at the time. It was very exciting to suddenly recall what I was feeling at the time."

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Roland Joffe
"I simply wanted to state that during this little slice of history, this is what happened and these were the good sides of it, these were the more dangerous sides of it, and this was the result."

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Aberjhani

"Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race."

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Aberjhani

"The commonplace books of the old Puritans were invaluable to them. They would never have been able to compile such works as they did if they had not been careful in collecting and arranging their matter under different heads."

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Aberjhani

"The only lesson you can learn from history is that it repeats itself."

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Aberjhani

"Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years."

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Aberjhani

"Mankind have a little corrupted nature, for they were not born wolves, and they have become wolves; God has given them neither cannon of four-and-twenty pounders, nor bayonets; and yet they have made cannon and bayonets to destroy one another."

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Aberjhani

"Hasn't there always been a moon?""Bless you. Not in the slightest. I remember the day the moon came. We looked up in the sky--it was all dirty brown and sooty gray here then, not green and blue..."

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Aberjhani

"What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past."

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Aberjhani

"Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for one of history's brilliant eras; whenever it fell, so did mankind."

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Aberjhani

"Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great."

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Aberjhani

"Robbing people of their actual history is the same as robbing them of part of themselves. It's a crime."Fuka-Eri thought about that for a moment.Tengo went on, "Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our collective memory. If our collective memory is taken from us - is rewritten - we lose the ability to sustain our true selves."

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