Nafisa Joseph Quotes
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Most of the producers don't know what they do. The misconception of the producers' function is really not a misconception. Most producers don't do a very good job.
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I am supposed to set an example to young players.
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Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species.
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In rural parts of China, it's like stepping back into the era of my grandfather or great-grandfather - not much has changed.
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I don't believe in the school of hard knocks, although I've had them. All that stuff about whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger is so not true. Do you know what makes you stronger? When people treat you and your art with dignity.
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I'm interested in visual vocabulary, like Warhol was interested in that vocabulary of advertisements and television and pop culture.
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I don't get hung up a lot on angst.
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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
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My parents and my brother instilled in me my sense of humor. That's kind of the way we communicate with each other, and it's always been a way for me to get to know people.
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My goal when I make my show is to make a show for women. I don't make a show for men.
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I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
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I think it's fair to say that all of the teams that have been in the playoffs have played very physically.
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Everyone thinks their family is the craziest family in the world. Like, 'My God, my family's crazy!'
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You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.
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I went up to the top of the career ladder and I came down again, I am past all that.
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When you agree to work with a filmmaker, it's important that you accept their world. It's an adventure. I like that. I throw myself into the director's arms, into their universe.
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It was my wish since I was a child to become something, to be able to stand on my own two feet, to do something for myself.
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Many of the issues we face in dealing with rapid climate change are well suited to an engineering mind.
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One wonders why there are so many women who follow Robespierre to his home, to the Jacobins, to the Cordeliers and to the Convention. It is because the French Revolution is a religion and Robespierre is one of its sects. He is a priest with his flock... Robespierre preaches, Robespierre censures, he is furious, serious, melancholic and exalted with passion. He thunders against the rich and the great. He lives on little and has no physical needs. He has only one mission: to talk. And he talks all the time.
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It was really bizarre, that Sabzian business. You know I had no interest in being photographed before this incident. But then not just Sabzian—many other people started pretending they were me! One of them actually got married while pretending he was me! My face became publicly recognizable soon after I decided to have a few photographs of me available in public to prevent these sorts of identity thefts. It is really pathetic, if you think of it. Filmmakers and filmmaking is so popular in Iran because all other forms of expression have been denied to people.
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We said we'd fly the flag without him and carry on. I didn't give him a kiss because I still hadn't accepted what was happening. I was hoping that some miracle was going to happen. Of course, it didn't. I wish I had kissed him now.
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That's your end goal anyway, is to make the fans happy.
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I hate the fearful trimming of possibilities that age brings.
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I won the crown for what I am - I'm certainly not going to let go of that!
