Daniel Portman Quotes
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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I've always been extremely physically active.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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I phoned Joe Roth, who was head of the studio at the time, and told him how beautiful the film was, and that I was fully ready to support it, that Michael's work was wonderful and I imagined that Daniel would feel the same. He listened quietly and read between the lines.
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In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.
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No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.
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If America is truly Israel's greatest ally, we should not be asking it to put its citizens and future at risk by forcing the establishment of a hostile Palestinian state as the only option.
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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
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Martin Scorsese, everything he does, I've got to see. And Jack Nicholson, I've got to see what he does.
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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I was really inspired by these larger-than-life female artists like Lee Bontecou and Eva Hesse and Yvonne Rainier and the incredible Lynda Benglis. There were many women who were really driven and became successful, who were part of essential paradigm shifts, despite the fact that the art world was still dominated by men.
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When you're a mom and you have three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.
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The Garden of Wonders project encompasses the knowledge that Be Open has accumulated over the years of work on different continents and different spheres.
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Only heroes get stereotyped. As they do the same kind of roles again and again.
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Everyone expects us to be assholes nowadays. I think we've let them down. We're regular dudes and dorky kids. Success doesn't mean you have to change.
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Do me a favor... Stand up, walk to wherever the nearest window is, and just look outside. You may not know this, but there's an entire planets-worth of summers, friends, sunsets, street lamps, songs, late nights, great films, and night skies waiting for you. Your life is as amazing as you want it to be, but first, you have to let it be that way.
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I like a man who can respect a woman. When he's real attentive, I think that is very manly. To respect a woman is divine.
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The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.
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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.
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I'm a point of conversation for my friends.
