Franz Kafka Quotes
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Feature filmmaking is a very powerful medium. It has a hold on me now.
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I firmly believe that with President Trump in the White House, we have such a great opportunity as conservatives.
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As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
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I deserve attention not because of any talent, but just because of who I am.
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CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the '70s, it was real cars, real metal, real blasts. They're really doing it and risking their lives. But I knew CGI was gonna start taking over.
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The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.
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All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
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I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.
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I'm really excited about furthering my film career in Bollywood and Hollywood.
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To me, it's just like, if you have talent, and you're lucky enough to find where you fit, and you work with the right people, it's not exalted at all.
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Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.
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I sent 'Hell or High Water' to Peter Berg, asking if he'd like to be involved.
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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
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My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies.
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In early Islam, it was an absolute tenet that the prophet was not to be worshipped. The prophet was a messenger. And one of the things that's happened in Islam is this cult of the prophet, which to my view is counter to the original tradition.
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Women will never be taken seriously until they accept full responsibility for their sexuality.
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A helpful thing for me has always been - this is from a great acting teacher Declan Donnellan - is this beautiful way of expressing how and why people do things that other people may not do. It's a simple sentence that says, 'I understand you; you don't understand me.'
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It was the Spice Girls who messed it all up. And obviously, the appropriating of the phrase "girl power", which at that point overrode any notion of feminism, and which was a phrase that meant absolutely nothing apart from being friends with your girlfriends.
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What it would have felt like to fall in love and have nothing holding you back from being completely free.
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We are going through tough economic times but things are looking up, and the indicators are improving not only for large corporations but also for small business.
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I am free and that is why I am lost.
