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"[as the Nazis are opening the Ark] Marion, don't look at it. Shut your eyes, Marion. Don't look at it, no matter what happens!"
"Don't look, Marion! Keep your eyes shut!"
"God damn it, Indy, where doesn't it hurt?"
"You can't do this to me! I'm an American!"
"We never seem to get a break, do we?"
"[to Colonel Dietrich] Let me ask you this: Would you feel more comfortable opening the Ark in Berlin for your Führer? Finding out, only then, if the sacred pieces of the Covenant are inside? Knowing only then whether you have accomplished your mission, and obtained the one, true Ark?"
"The Return of the Great Adventure!"
"If adventure has a name, it must be Indiana Jones!"
"Harrison Ford - Indiana Jones"
"Karen Allen - Marion Ravenwood"
"Paul Freeman - René Belloq"
"John Rhys-Davies - Sallah"
"Denholm Elliott - Marcus Brody"
"Ronald Lacey - Major Arnold Toht"
"Wolf Kahler - Colonel Dietrich"
"Anthony Higgins - Gobler"
"George Harris - Katanga"
"Lucas: A bounty hunter of antiquities."
"Spielberg: I like that. The doctor with the bullwhip."
"Lucas: He could have known this little girl when she was just a kid. Had an affair with her when she was eleven."
"Lucas: It has to be unique. It's a character. Very Americana. Square. He was born in Indiana."
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.