Chrystia Freeland Quotes
If you believe in democracy, than you can't trash it by being cynical about the people who do democracy: the politicians.
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I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.
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For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.
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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
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Comedy is a universal language. I grew up watching Nagesh, Surilirajan, Thenga Srinivasan and S.V. Shekhar's comedies. And, of course, Charlie Chaplin! These artists are so blessed: they can make other people happy.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
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There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
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Because I am afraid of commitment. This movie certainly has some bearing and is some reflection of my real feeling about relationships, because I do have commitment issues. My friends tell me I have intimacy problems, but they don't know me, so who cares what they think?
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We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.
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Nobody knows 100% what affects the human body, mind or spirit.
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I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence.
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The first thing I do when I get to any town is find a gym and a breakfast place, because I love breakfast.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'
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I was actually a Cowboys fan.
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I often imagine what it would be like if my father were still here to mark his 100th birthday, if Alzheimer's hadn't clawed away years, possibilities, hopes. What would he think of all the commemorations and celebrations?
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If the people don't want to come out to the ballpark, nobody's going to stop them.
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It seems to me that most characters, in anything, are flawed in some way, just like most people. You look for the good in the flawed people and vice versa, and then try and make them appealing in some way.
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The reality is, risk is variable. Those in the financial world know it.
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I want Green Arrow to have fun. I don't want him to be a tortured hero. I mean, I've written plenty of tortured heroes, like Daredevil. But it's all there in Daredevil's origin as to why he'd be a tortured adult. Green Arrow doesn't have that kind of origin. In fact, he's such a clean slate that he doesn't even have an origin anymore.
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If you believe in democracy, than you can't trash it by being cynical about the people who do democracy: the politicians.
