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Words convey the mental treasures of one period to the generations that follow; and laden with this, their precious freight, they sail safely across gulfs of time in which empires have suffered shipwreck and the languages of common life have sunk into oblivion. Source Unknown
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Any time someone says "that's it, I'm leaving" I ask them whether they'd prefer to live under US domestic policy, or US foreign policy. As bad as things get inside an empire, they're usually worse in the protectorates. Jamie Zawinski
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Rhino-mounted Bantu shock troops could have overthrown the Roman Empire. It never happened. Jared Diamond
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The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire. Dave Barry
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Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes. Alan Moore
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The history of empires is the history of human misery. Edward Gibbon
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Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.
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[In] the national and religious conflict of the [Byzantine and Saracen] empires, peace was without confidence, and war without mercy.
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[Instead] of inquiring why the Roman empire was destroyed, we should rather be surprised that it had subsisted so long.
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We're going to start planning it two weeks after this one is over. Tom Glennon (director of the Georgia Children's Museum) has already come to me with the idea of a children's division, both films made by children and directed at children as an audience. We may even show them at the museum.
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We're going to show it on a very unconventional surface. Many unconventional surfaces in the park will be utilized as we project different Thomas Edison films and (images).
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If they made films in Palm Beach, actors and actresses would be much better dressed.
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We grew up watching American films and I hope that Americans will watch our stories. Gavin Hood
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What's interesting this year is we have filmmakers who are straddling two continents. You've got filmmakers really crossing borders and going back in recent history; it's a much broader awareness of the world at large. Laura Thielen
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Unless it's something very clever like 'Memento,' most independent films have a very tough life out there. Allison Anders
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Working with Ridley is working with one of the great filmmakers and one of the great raconteurs. You know, it's like, a dinner with Ridley Scott or a dinner with Martin Scorsese? You just want to cut your arm off to get those. John Logan
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Working with David Lynch was like taking a bullet. A gun at you. 'Lost Highway' is, I think, one of the best films I've ever been in. It'll endure a long, long time. Robert Loggia
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Working on films where the money's more important than the creativity, I just get a bit freaked out by that. I just don't feel comfortable. Guy Pearce