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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I think that when Americans go to vote, states should not list what party the candidates are affiliated with. That would require voters to actually think and get to know a candidate instead of voting for their favorite gang. 'Oh, this guy is a Republican, so he must be good.'
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Through surrender the aspirant's ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain.
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When you first sit down to write the first song, until you've maybe got three or four under your belt, it's always, to me, like a mountain to climb. You look at that one blank piece of paper and you think, `God, how many songs do I have to write here?' It always feels like pressure.
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Where it gets clear for me about the privacy issue is with my kids because they didn't choose this kind of life. I'm an incredibly open person, though - I'll tell anyone anything.
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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.
