"And it really began with Einstein. We attended……" — Douglas Sirk
"And it really began with Einstein. We attended his lectures. Now the theory of relativity remained - and still remains - only a theory. It has not been proven. But it suggested a completely different picture of the physical world."
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Douglas Sirk
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32 Quotes by Douglas Sirk
Douglas Sirk has 32 quotes on this site.
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If I can say one thing for my pictures, it is a certain craftsmanship. A thought which has gone into…
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I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style.
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So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They…
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I think the great artists (..) have always thought with the heart.
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This is the dialectic - there is a very short distance between high art and trash, and trash that contains…
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There is a wonderful expression: seeing through a glass darkly. Everything, even life, is inevitably removed from you. You can't…
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I was making films about American society, and it is true that I never felt at home there, except perhaps…
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There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief…
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For a house, somewhere near Los Angeles I found an old church. Very old, no longer used. So we moved…
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Your characters have to remain innocent of what your picture is after.
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Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands.
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In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.
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Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
— Saul Bellow
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Frankly, I'm not sure how far I would get if I attended public school today. It's not just that public…
— Eli Broad
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In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
— Winston Churchill
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I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.
— Woody Allen
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When I was a kid, I attended a small Catholic school in a south suburb of Chicago.
— Diablo Cody
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Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expence.
— Thomas Paine
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The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their…
— Charles Darwin
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Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.
— Jonathan Swift
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Two people have been living in you all your life. One is the ego, garrulous, demanding, hysterical, calculating - the…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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The diminution of public virtue is usually attended with that of public happiness, and the public liberty will not long…
— Samuel Adams
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During my second year at Edinburgh [1826-27] I attended Jameson's lectures on Geology and Zoology, but they were incredible dull.…
— Charles Darwin
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I have spent much time in the study of the abstract sciences; but the paucity of persons with whom you…
— Blaise Pascal
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