Faran Tahir Quotes
Does Hollywood do movies about terrorism? Yeah. And why do they do that? Because it sells.
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I'm such a fan of Shailene Woodley, so I'm super excited to see all her stuff. She's an awesome actress.
Zoey Deutch
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I had moved across the country, taken internships, networked, worked long hours, and called in favors to get there. And I had done it. I was working in Hollywood. So imagine the melancholy I found myself in when I realized that I didn't love casting the way that I always thought I would.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
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When I'm reading material, if I'm a little bit afraid of a part and I'm willing to admit that to myself, then I'll do it, definitely. If I'm worried about being able to do it, to get it - I absolutely just love it.
Jack Lemmon
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My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.
Vince Vaughn
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Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.
Ed Gillespie
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I consider the many years I produced 'Frontline' documentaries as the essential building blocks of my success.
Raney Aronson-Rath
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It was hard for me to hear anyone saying they didn't like 'Billy Madison.'
Tamra Davis
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I did swimming, gymnastics, dance, and the acting was just a small part. I didn't have pushy parents; it wasn't forced upon me. They just said, 'See if you like it. If you do, great; if you don't, don't worry about it.' I was really fortunate to have that guidance and supportive parents.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson
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The movie business is a big gamble.
Jackie Chan
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In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.
Gary Bettman
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I was a dancer of no repute. But dance taught me a lot. You walk into a dance studio knowing you have to walk out with a dance. You improvise.
Dan Phillips
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A good leader must be fair.
Yao Ming
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It's good to surf whatever waves are going on right there as they're happening.
Ben Mendelsohn
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Quantity is the fundamental feature of things, the 'primarium accidens substantiae,' ...prior to the other categories.
Johannes Kepler
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I hear, 'But why do poor people make such bad decisions?' But actually, their decision-making can be far more complex than that of the better-off in many ways. They're not financially illiterate: they're constantly weighing up choices based on the reality of poverty. Somehow the international development community has resisted accepting this.
Ann Cotton
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When we look at a good deal of serious modern fiction, and particularly Southern fiction, we find this quality about it that is generally described, in a pejorative sense, as grotesque. Of course, I have found that anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the Northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic.... Whenever I'm asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.
Flannery O'Connor
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I'm nicer on tax day than I am when I'm on deadline.
Laurie Notaro
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Does Hollywood do movies about terrorism? Yeah. And why do they do that? Because it sells.
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