Phil Jackson Quotes
We got them mired into our style of play. They were playing at a level above us and we got them to come down to our level. ... We just couldn't seem to finish it.

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All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That's what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.
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I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.
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In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
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The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.
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Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that we came over to a country that's not necessarily ours and filled it with white prisoners?
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.
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I'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.
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God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.
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Professionally, I really respect Natalie Portman – her career choices, actually going for stuff with substance.
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To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.
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Today in Saudi, women are either at the mercy of their husbands or at the mercy of judges who tend to side with the husbands. The only circumstance that a woman can ask for a divorce or a 'khali' is when her husband is in total agreement with her or if she comes from a very powerful family who decide to back her up.
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I was very excited to work with Nick Jarecki and, of course, to be in a film with Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon!
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I've never played a character that would sing.
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I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me isn't a song that I need to sing.
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Guys usually know immediately that I'm high-maintenance.
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I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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Today, the Muslim world is the poorest of the global powers.
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Every time I got close, somebody seemed to play a little better.
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You can't just say I love you, you have to LIVE I love you.
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Whether we love, or close our hearts to love, is a mental choice we make, every moment of every day.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.
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When a private citizen is robbed, a worthy man is deprived of the fruits of his industry and thrift; when the government is robbed, the worst that happens is that certain rogues and loafers have less money to play with than they had before.
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We got them mired into our style of play. They were playing at a level above us and we got them to come down to our level. ... We just couldn't seem to finish it.