Emir Kusturica Quotes
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I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.
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Wherever I go in the world, I'm treated like royalty.
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I didn't really want to be a teacher, but there was nothing else I could be. Most of those who went to the university became teachers. It was just the racial restriction on Africans.
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Responding to terrorism inevitably implies military consequences. This may shock some people, but these groups must also be dealt with on a military footing. I won't use the word 'combat' to avoid being painted as a crusader.
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Cerrone, he's a very good Muay Thai guy, very long.
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I have run with the Olympic Torch during the 2012 summer games in London and the 2014 winter games in Sochi.
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I majored in Shakespearean studies at a very tiny school in Georgia.
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We want the city back on its feet. We want to have jobs for the city.
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I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.
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In theory, parents are supposed to empathize with one other - find common cause in the fervent desire to preserve and protect the world for the next generation, and connect on some deep, almost mystical level that those poor souls who have not experienced this kind of all-consuming love cannot possibly comprehend.
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One thing I love about Christmas music is that it has a tradition of warmth.
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I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this.
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Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.
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Music is such a healing thing, no matter who you are.
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I always thought that there was something in hip-hop culture that was the misfit of all the musical styles, where they didn't really belong. They're kind of like, 'No, we're a real culture! We're not going anywhere, you can't get rid of us!' I really liked that there was a rebelliousness about it. I connected with that.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
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The final revelation is that Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.
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The poem goes form the poet’s gibberish to The gibberish of the vulgate and back again.
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Give me bitter years of sickness, Suffocation, insomnia, fever, Take my child and my lover, And my mysterious gift of song - This I pray at your liturgy After so many tormented days, So that the stormcloud over darkened Russia Might become a cloud of glorious rays.
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Free from passion and desire, you have stripped the thorns from the stem.
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I suffered from 'No one will ever fancy me!' syndrome, well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. Absolutely not.
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There's nothing that compares with the time spent all by myself on a creation that is all my own. I still think of my solo work as my 'home planet' in comics, though I've learned to listen much more to editors and trusted friends for feedback.
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My livelihood depends on the art of animators.
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I'm just a troublemaker.
