Dean Rusk Quotes
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.
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I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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I like to play dress up, I'm in love with fashion.
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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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There are a lot of competitive girls in the industry, so you just find the ones who share your mentality.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
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If you're making comedies, they have to have a fun and a rhythm to them.
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.
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Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.
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I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.
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Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.
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Some people have described Daoism as pantheist, and although there's something in me that resists this designation, I can see that Daoism is consistent with pantheism. If there is any way in which pantheism makes sense and is not redundant, then it is the way (or 'the Way') presented in Daoism.
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The seat of faith, however, is not consciousness but spontaneous religious experience, which brings the individual's faith into immediate relation with God. Here we must ask: Have I any religious experience and immediate relation to God, and hence that certainty which will keep me, as an individual, from dissolving in the crowd?
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Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how God has turned it into good no matter what.
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Humility is not just declaring that you are not God. It is deciding daily to not be God.
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When you solve a problem, you ought to thank God and go on to the next one.
