Reality doesn't interest me. - Leni Riefenstahl

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Many critics are like woodpeckers, who, instead of enjoying the fruit and shadow of a tree, hop incessantly around the trunk, pecking holes in the bark to discover some little worm or other.

Leni Riefenstahl

Reality doesn't interest me.

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Where is my guilt? I can regret. I can regret that I made the party film, `Triumph of the Will,' in 1934. But I cannot regret that I lived in that time. No anti-Semitic word has ever crossed my lips. I was never anti-Semitic. I did not join the party. So where then is my guilt? You tell me. I have thrown no atomic bombs. I have never betrayed anyone. What am I guilty of?

Betrayed, Guilt, Lived, Party, Regret

I want to see, that's all. This is my life. I want to see

Famous Women, Life, See, Want

I can simply say that I feel spontaneously attracted by everything that is beautiful. . . It comes from the unconscious and not from my knowledge. . . Whatever is purely realistic, slice of life, which is average, quotidian, doesn't interest me. . . I am fascinated by what is beautiful, strong, healthy, what is living. I seek harmony.

Average, Beautiful, Seek, Slice, Strong

They kept asking me over and over again whether I was having a romance with Hitler. Are you Hitler's girlfriend? I laughed and answered the same way each time: No, those are false rumours. I only made documentaries for him.

Asking, Girlfriend, Romance, Time

I was fascinated by the effects that could be achieved by editing. The cutting room became a magic workshop for me.

Cutting, Editing, Fascinated, Magic, Room

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Many critics are like woodpeckers, who, instead of enjoying the fruit and shadow of a tree, hop incessantly around the trunk, pecking holes in the bark to discover some little worm or other.

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Yogi Berra

You can see a lot just by observing.

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Henry David Thoreau

What is wanted is men of principle, who recognize a higher law than the decision of the majority. The marines and the militia whose bodies were used lately were not men of sense nor of principle; in a high moral sense they were not men at all.

Bodies, Marine, Men, Militia, Moral, Responsibility

Robert Louis Stevenson

There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.

Goodness, Humility, Men, Rough, Two

Markus Zusak

She was a Jew feeder without a question in the world on that man's first night in Molching. She was an arm reacher, deep into a mattress, to deliver a sketchbook to a teenage girl. (84. 25)

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