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Douglas Sirk

"Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals."

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"Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals."

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A.E. Samaan

"Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals."

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A.E. Samaan

"Futurism: This was a movement of intellectuals who wanted to replace tradition with the modern world of machinery, speed, violence, and public relations. It proves that we should be careful what intellectuals wish for, because we might get it."

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A.E. Samaan

"Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life-the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within it-can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances."

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A.E. Samaan

"I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect."

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A.E. Samaan

"Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets."

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A.E. Samaan

"The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect."

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A.E. Samaan

"Never believe all that you hear. Always verify the original source of information."

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A.E. Samaan

"Irony is the hygiene of the mind."

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A.E. Samaan

"Will and intellect are one and the same thing."

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A.E. Samaan

"The higher the voice the smaller the intellect."

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Douglas Sirk
"The war was the end of an era, in art as well. And we were trying to create a new philosophy."

Art

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Douglas Sirk
"And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble."

Movies

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Douglas Sirk
"Your camera is the best critic there is. Critics never see as much as the camera does. It is more perceptive than the human eye."

Photography

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Douglas Sirk
"Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands."

Body

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Douglas Sirk
"You have to think with the heart."

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Douglas Sirk
"I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart."

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Douglas Sirk
"These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition."

Optimism

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Douglas Sirk
"At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power."

Power

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Douglas Sirk
"If I couldn't read, I couldn't live."

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Douglas Sirk
"Ross Hunter was my assistant on Take Me to Town, He was a young man, an actor before that, and learned a lot on the picture. During shooting, Goldstein left, and Ross was most pleasant. He never interfered."

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