Franz Kafka Quotes
All human errors are impatience, the premature breaking off of what is methodical, an apparent fencing in of the apparent thing.
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Usually, if you read a script by somebody else and there's a dense page of stage directions, people just skip through it or speed read it.
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When I first started in Malaysia, having a Muslim Malay girl singing and holding a guitar was new to everyone. Even Muslims there had issues with it; they found it weird.
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Question the motives of those who make requests of you. Discover what they really want. You may not want to give it.
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I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.
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I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.
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It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
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Human beings are a social species. We like to hang together in groups, just like wildebeests, just like lions. Wildebeests don't hang with lions because lions eat wildebeests. Human beings are like that. We do what that group does that we're trying to identify with.
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Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.
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Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
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I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.
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I always gravitate towards the independent side of things, just because those are the stories I always fall in love with, but you don't really get paid, and living in Los Angeles is expensive, and I have a mortgage to pay. So it's good to jump onto a studio film and then in all my other time do small passion projects.
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There's a place in my heart for every team I played on.
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My standards are based on shows I like, like 'Girls' or 'Arrested Development.' And they're all shows that are groundbreaking. I guess in the back of my head, I think, If you're not being groundbreaking, then what are you doing? If you're not being ballsy and honest and vulgar, then what are you doing?
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You look at women like Lena Dunham, you look at how women are kind of crafting their own space on the screen. I want to add to that.
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I spoke with Abramovich. He is very simple and loves football. We were on the same wavelength: he wants to confirm Chelsea's position at the top.
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I also said, men are like curling irons, they never get out of your hair. And they are like government bonds, they take so long to mature.
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As U.S. citizens, Puerto Rico has paid their part.
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My longing for truth was a single prayer.
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It felt amazing to be one of a handful working female directors in Hollywood.
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I think that sex, drugs, art and religion very much overlap with one another and sometimes one becomes another.
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I think for the most part people are proud of the bicultural foundation New Zealand is built on and the fact that we are a multicultural society.
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I very rarely saw Tom Kite around. I've talked to Tom about it. I don't think Michael Jordan needed to be on the captain's cart with Kite; he needed to be walking in the gallery, supporting them from outside the ropes.
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We're looking for the early adopter who considers style to be an important part of the purchase decision. But they'll be getting a practical car with plenty of trunk space they can use for picking up building supplies at Home Depot.
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All human errors are impatience, the premature breaking off of what is methodical, an apparent fencing in of the apparent thing.
