Emanuel Azenberg Quotes
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The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord.
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
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Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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I have reservations about everything I do.
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No nation has embraced Total Quality Management, e-commerce and e-government with greater enthusiasm than Dubai. Such innovations have given Dubai a competitive edge and an accelerated growth rate that few could match.
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I like doing my own stunts.
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No writer of a portion of the Bible was perfect. It was the direct and miraculous operation of the Holy Spirit that what they wrote is without mistake.
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I was with the CIA for only three years. I worked in the Directorate of Operations, which is now called the National Clandestine Service. It's the part of the organization where the spies live. I didn't have much experience beyond the training.
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I've worked at this film festival in Telluride called the Telluride Film Festival. Been there since 2002. I used to make popcorn. I was an usher. Cleaned toilets, everything. Grew up there as a kid.
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I've always wanted to be a very commercial director, or I had dreams of making these movies into blockbusters. And with each movie, they tell me it's not that way.
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If you're going to give people authority and hold them responsible and ultimately accountable for their performance, you've got to get out of the way.
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Striking out Ruth and Gehrig in succession was too big an order.
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A lot of people in line at the grocery store think that they know me, but they don't.
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There's nothing more powerful to a showrunner than a truly invested writer.
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Little deeds are like little seeds, they grow to flowers or to weeds.
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Let who will scoff and revile – I will not remain silent; neither will I conceal the signs and wonders which have been shown to me by the Lord, who knew all things even before the time of this world, many years before, just as they happened.
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You may not be like everyone else, but that's okay. Be who God made you to be.
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Sometimes, the smaller roles in movies can be the most interesting. If you only take the stance that you'll only play central characters in movies, you'll find yourself not being able to indulge in that morally grey terrain that makes support characters so rich and interesting.
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I remember seeing McCoy Tyner in concert, and thinking that the music was incredible, but wanting to be invited in. I figured that humor was the way of letting the audience in. I've gotten a hard time about it, but I love to be funny onstage.
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Mentorship plays such an important role in business - we know it's a must - and I believe schools should embrace it in a much fuller way.
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Will the theater disappear? No. Is it healthy? Also no.
