Bill Forsyth Quotes
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Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
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The worldview implied by literary fiction is complex and ambiguous, trying to be faithful to the complexity and ambiguity of life.
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I was in prison with pretty much the who's who of the jihadist and Islamist scene of Egypt at the time, and Egypt was the cradle of Islamism for the world - it's where it began and where jihadism began as well.
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I've been pretty lucky with neighbors. But back in 1998, I lived, like, literally next door to Wrigley Field in Chicago. And I had, like, 50,000 bad neighbors spread out over the course of one summer. I'm a diehard Cubs fan, but living right next to the ballpark, it's just - as you're trying to go to sleep, you can just, like, hear urination.
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On the weekends, I do the usual parental things, going to the boys' football tournaments or getting out for a hike along the Great Wall.
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The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me.
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Our work for human dignity is often lonely, and almost always an uphill climb. At times, our efforts are misunderstood, and we are mistaken for the enemy. There has been a clear erosion of respect for U.N. blue and our impartiality.
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'Kahaani' gave me popularity and 'Gangs of Wasseypur' stardom.
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I used to be more of a sporty girl. I love outdoor activities. I haven't been doing much since living in Vancouver. I have my routines down in L.A.
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I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.
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I learned how to shoot when I was pretty little.
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Israel's days without Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria and the Gaza Strip are gone and will not return.
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I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
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I still have, I hope, a lot of years and there are still a lot of things I want to do.
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Just because I never went to university doesn't mean you can't read, although I do feel a bit uneducated from time to time.
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Assume nobody else has any idea what they're doing, either.
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Start your day in a upward direction, and the rest of the day will follow the uphill path.
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Nobody had made this wilderness, and there was no evil in it and no good; it simply was.
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I am thrilled to return full time to a job and the employees I love.
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I don't like talking about which bits I like or don't like about my body. Everybody has something they're not happy with, and my only advice would be, 'Do something about it - exercise or eat less, but don't do nothing!' Find ways to enhance the good bits and camouflage the bad bits.
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Sometimes in order for change to be made in a positive fashion, we must force ourselves to look unblinkingly at painful realities and reevaluate.
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I don't really enjoy filming.
