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		For me, actors have to have a character, an aura, body language. They're not models. They used to call actors models. But I want them to participate in the film.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Pawel Pawlikowski 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Queen Rania of Jordan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Adam Dell 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ioan Gruffudd 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Uma Thurman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The same way you can see me sit at a table in a movie and be six different people, the mother and the uncle and all these different things, when I'm in the studio, I can do that, too. I'm not trying to be a recording artist and have a certain type of music for the radio. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Eddie Murphy 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		'Lost' is about a bunch of people stranded on an island. It's compelling, but kind of tiny. But what sustains you are the characters. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Carlton Cuse 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		With 500 channels and the Internet available, you'd think a candidate could get the word out. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Larry King 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I didn't really want to be a teacher, but there was nothing else I could be. Most of those who went to the university became teachers. It was just the racial restriction on Africans. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Oliver Tambo 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Fernando Pessoa 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		You have kids growing up in some of the worst circumstances financially, living in some of the worst ghettos, and they succeed. They succeed because an adult figure, typically a mother, maybe a grandmother, nourishes the kid, supports the kid, protects the kid, encourages the kid to succeed. It's as if the environment never happened. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				James Heckman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Picasso is a character that has pursued me for a long time and I always rejected. He deserves a lot of respect because I am from Malaga, and I was born four blocks from where he was born. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Antonio Banderas 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		For me, actors have to have a character, an aura, body language. They're not models. They used to call actors models. But I want them to participate in the film. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Pawel Pawlikowski