Certainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there.
Interpretation
Salman Rushdie criticizes the lack of artistic value in Hollywood cinema.
In this quote, Salman Rushdie expresses his disappointment with Hollywood cinema, suggesting that it lacks depth and creativity. He implies that the films produced in Hollywood do not engage or inspire audiences in a meaningful way, highlighting a perceived decline in artistic integrity in mainstream film production.
In practice
During a film discussion, you could reference this quote to spark a debate about the quality of modern films.
I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.
Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
faith without doubt is addiction
I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.
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Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.
I like books that are fat and full.
To chart a course, one must have a direction. In reality, the eye is no better than the philosophy behind it. The photographer creates, evolves a better, a more selective, more acute seeing eye by looking ever more sharply at what is going on in the world.
There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night-dews on still waters between walls Of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass; Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tir'd eyelids upon tir'd eyes; Music that brings sweet sleep down from the blissful skies. Here are cool mosses deep, And thro' the moss the ivies creep, And in the stream the long-leaved flowers weep, And from the craggy ledge the poppy hangs in sleep.
Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
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