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Quotes by Latvian Authors

"We women must listen to our inner voice. It is easier for women to do this as they are not afraid to say what they feel."
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Indra Devi
"We women must listen to our inner voice. It is easier for women to do this as they are not afraid to say what they feel."
"Tell your husbands any bad news when everything is calm, not just as they come through the door."
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Indra Devi
"Tell your husbands any bad news when everything is calm, not just as they come through the door."
"Yoga is an art and science of living."
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Indra Devi
"Yoga is an art and science of living."
"I do not belong to any religion. Everything is between God and myself."
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Indra Devi
"I do not belong to any religion. Everything is between God and myself."
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"Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual."
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Indra Devi
"Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual."
"Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed."
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Indra Devi
"Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed."
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"We must keep both our femininity and our strength."
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Indra Devi
"We must keep both our femininity and our strength."
"The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge that will make him a better film director or human being."
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Sergei Eisenstein
"The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge that will make him a better film director or human being."
"Women must not shout back when their husbands come home and shout at them for any reason."
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Indra Devi
"Women must not shout back when their husbands come home and shout at them for any reason."
"Freedom is living without chains."
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Indra Devi
"Freedom is living without chains."
"Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions."
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Indra Devi
"Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions."
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"Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects?"
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Sergei Eisenstein
"Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects?"
"Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness."
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Indra Devi
"Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness."
"Of the thousands of people, celebrated and unknown, who have sat before my camera, I am often asked who was the most difficult subject, or the easiest, or which picture is my favorite. This last question is like asking a mother which child she likes the most."
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Philippe Halsman
"Of the thousands of people, celebrated and unknown, who have sat before my camera, I am often asked who was the most difficult subject, or the easiest, or which picture is my favorite. This last question is like asking a mother which child she likes the most."
"Language is much closer to film than painting is."
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Sergei Eisenstein
"Language is much closer to film than painting is."
"We've got our own daylight to get bad thoughts away, and we talk with that light - our star in our heart. We take away what's unimportant."
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Indra Devi
"We've got our own daylight to get bad thoughts away, and we talk with that light - our star in our heart. We take away what's unimportant."
"A true portrait should, today and a hundred years from today, the Testimony of how this person looked and what kind of human being he was."
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Philippe Halsman
"A true portrait should, today and a hundred years from today, the Testimony of how this person looked and what kind of human being he was."
"Laughter drives shouting away."
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Indra Devi
"Laughter drives shouting away."
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"Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes, birds, etc."
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Sergei Eisenstein
"Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes, birds, etc."
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"For example, in painting the form arises from abstract elements of line and color, while in cinema the material concreteness of the image within the frame presents - as an element - the greatest difficulty in manipulation."
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Sergei Eisenstein
"For example, in painting the form arises from abstract elements of line and color, while in cinema the material concreteness of the image within the frame presents - as an element - the greatest difficulty in manipulation."
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