Emmanuel Lubezki Quotes
The language of film is further and further away from the language of theater and is closer to music. It's abstract but still narrative.
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I can easily hold two opposing beliefs at the same time without any problem, which I find - well, mind-expanding, really.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
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I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation.
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When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St. Petersburg. So I went, and I was so inspired.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.
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We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.
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Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.
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The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.
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Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.
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Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.
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Change is something that is expected and, therefore, not resisted.
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I try to write in the mornings, as soon as I'm up and caffeinated, and to stay in the chair as long as I can be productive.
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Sometimes I get lonely, but it's nice to be alone.
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I just grill chicken and make very simple cuisine.
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I'm truly passionate about basketball. I'm not as passionate about baseball as I am about basketball, but I watch baseball and I watch football. I love sports in general.
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Obviously God was a solution, and obviously none so satisfactory that will ever be found again.
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I am committed to doing customer service for Craigslist for the rest of my life. The exit strategy is death.
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I don't think that genius goes hand in hand with being socially inept or being a sociopath or being a misanthrope, but I do think that it is a mind that can think so differently - so beyond how one is supposed to think.
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Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.
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The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls.
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The language of film is further and further away from the language of theater and is closer to music. It's abstract but still narrative.
