Faran Tahir Quotes
I think you can do science fiction, but you have to ground it in some realism. People need to identify with the characters, with their plights and their issues.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.
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Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.
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People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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I shifted my career when I was 44 to quit the Washington beats. I had a great Washington beat, a series of them, and I quit to start my tech column, which was a different kind of tech column.
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You know, I've just always been sort of goofy and kind of gone with it. I actually usually work more in drama, but I have been floating back and forth with comedy, and somehow they keep giving me jobs in comedy, so I guess there's something funny about me.
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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But I started it when I was going through a transitional time in my life. At the end of it, it really sort of symbolized it. I had made room to change, and room to grow. I recorded it in a little room.
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I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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New Canada must be workable without Quebec, but it must be open and attractive enough to include a New Quebec.
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Sometimes you need other people to embody situations so that you can talk about things that for you are important. And I think that being able to hope for the future is what builds in us the strength to just get rid of things that, in the past, can hurt.
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I'm kind of the antithesis of a comedian. People that don't like me will agree with that.
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Women are the best judges of anything we turn out. Their taste is very important. They are the theatergoers; they are the ones who drag the men in. If the women like it, to heck with the men.
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I think you can do science fiction, but you have to ground it in some realism. People need to identify with the characters, with their plights and their issues.
