Irvin Kershner Quotes
I have not given much credence to reviews of my films. Sometimes they're wrong, but it didn't matter to me.
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So although women can do anything that men can't do, they can also do something that men can't do, and that is mother their children.
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I just have a connection with sign language. I always thought the deaf community was a different community to be a part of. In high school, me and my friend took sign language.
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There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'
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Skin care is so much more important than makeup. Makeup is for when you're having fun and going out. But your skin is forever.
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I am an American citizen born in Kuwait of Egyptian parents. I grew up in Great Britain, Malaysia, and Egypt and have lived in the United States since 1965, when I was seventeen.
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I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.
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I think Indians dress better than anyone, but I don't want to imitate more than a detail or two; I prefer my clothes humdrum and inconspicuous, and a cowboy hat just doesn't work for me.
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My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.
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I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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I have self-actualized. Pardon me whilst I adjust my glowing halo.
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It's like you have a child and you think, 'Everything that I've done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to being a father.' It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.
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We care about margins.
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Generally, I get bad reviews in Turkey.
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The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.
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A lot of the time, when I watch actors now, I think, 'I don't believe you.'
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The old bastions of the post-communist regime collapsed before my very eyes. The monsters who had kept Ukraine in a criminal state left the stage.
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Tell me, Connie, is your mother still dead?
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I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.
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Everyone tells me to play as long as you can. Sometimes, it goes in one ear and out the other.
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The idea of just sitting at home on Facebook worries me. I think we should all get out more.
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It's all about winning. Stats really don't matter, I mean, guys have great series and all that, and people take notice and take their place in history with those stats and all that stuff. But at the end of the day, it's all about winning and what you can do to help your team get to that point.
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Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.
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I have not given much credence to reviews of my films. Sometimes they're wrong, but it didn't matter to me.
