Kofi Annan Quotes
I hope we do not see another Iraq-type operation for a long time - without UN approval and much broader support from the international community.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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I write better in Cape Breton... too many people around in Ontario. Down there I meet all sorts of non-human people, but they don't bother me, and I don't feel I have to apologize on behalf of my species quite so often.
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I just try to keep it simple, not let too many outside things influence me.
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I'm still dreaming to be the next Missy Elliott.
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I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attention of people abroad.
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I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer-controlled; the TV viewer of the future will wear a special helmet. You'll no longer be an external spectator to fiction created by others, but an active participant in your own fantasies/dramas.
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In New Orleans, music is part of the culture. You're raised with it, from the cradle to the grave, and all in-between.
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The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.
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I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that.
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Everything I've ever written, I had a very distinct vision of what I wanted it to look like. But, other directors never do it that way.
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I didn't know box office was a thing you could possess but I don't have it. I go up for lovely roles and people with this nebulous thing called box office get them so there isn't much I can do about that unless you know where I can get some box-office myself!
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I have this necklace I always wear. I collect pendants from people I love; my best friends and members of my family have all given me one, and I put them on this chain so no matter where I am they're always with me.
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In fiction, you know, there are no borders. You can go anywhere.
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When I saw rappers in the '90s cameo in films - all of those '90s rappers - it seemed like whenever you chucked a rapper in a film, they could just act. It seemed like all rappers could act.
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My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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I think it actually started in my late thirties. I started changing psychologically, and it was difficult to translate that into my writing.
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It's an intuitive exercise to do a Shakespeare play and to go through a Shakespeare play.
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After the Academy Award, well, I was left with a lot of time on my hands. I thought I'd get a lot of offers - and they didn't come.
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Why do you lie" I ask her. "To block the truth." Fair enough. Naomi goes on. "Where did we get it in our heads that we need truth all the time? Sometimes lies are nice, you know? You don't have to know the truth all the time. It's too exhausting.
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Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action.
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I hope we do not see another Iraq-type operation for a long time - without UN approval and much broader support from the international community.
