Martti Ahtisaari Quotes
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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My creativity all comes from the same place. I wear one very comfortable, large hat.
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It may be that Tolstoy and Virginia Woolf were sitting around fretting about their Amazon reviews or their pre-pub whatever, but I kind of doubt it. I don't think that's how the work probably got made.
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The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
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Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.
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Honesty and loyalty are key. If two people can be honest with each other about everything, that's probably the biggest key to success.
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Even the best parents have to spend so much time making ends meet that they cannot help their kids with homework or afford the extra tutoring that wealthier students enjoy. To address these unjust disparities, we need an early education revolution.
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I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?
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Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.
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There's no one who has been living for centuries.
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Everybody who worked in film misses holding pieces of film, holding it up to the light, and seeing exactly where something was image-wise.
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We live in a world now where everything is tweeted and Instagrammed and tagged and now, God help us, Vined. Calling out grievances over Twitter has become an industry norm.
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No matter how many times something has been observed, it cannot be believed until it has been observed again.
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I have never advised the destruction of life, but of property, yes.
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Luck has a lot to do with how your life develops.
