Jalal Talabani Quotes
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I don't choose to make movies as small as the movies I've made. The combined budget of my two films is far under $5 million, but it's just by necessity that it ends up being that way.
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My biggest project right now is trying to be a really great mom and learning how to balance family and career. I'm just trying to spend as much time with my family as I can.
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Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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I grew up in a funeral home, born and raised, and everyone was always like, 'Well, what was that like?' and I was like, 'It was normal', because it's all I knew.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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I'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'
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Glamorized... am I glamorous?
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
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I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.
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I've walked a lot in the mountains in Iceland. And as you come to a new valley, as you come to a new landscape, you have a certain view. If you stand still, the landscape doesn't necessarily tell you how big it is. It doesn't really tell you what you're looking at. The moment you start to move the mountain starts to move.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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Many comedians have a dark side that lets them take a negative thing and turn it funny.
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He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
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A manufacturing resurgence is what will give local communities and small towns across America a fighting chance for survival. Many of today's American entrepreneurs come from those very places but make their wealth elsewhere. We need to change that.
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I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other musicians around.
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Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me, the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating.
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People only talk about what a joyous experience it is, but there is terror: Your life, as you know it, is over. It's over the day that child is born. It's over, and something completely new starts.
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For now, capitalism is working to produce more money but does not see the people. This problem is getting worse across the world.
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I’m discovering that the people that wake up early are really the trendsetters. They are up giving the commands on what the whole world needs to do, so the worker wakes up at 8AM, but the dreamer, the innovator, the creator, the engineer is up at 3 or 4 in the morning making it happen.
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Modi Model of Development is more a hype than reality, and the Congress has always stood for inclusive development.
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I don't think any actor can be happy with their performance. There's always something you wish you would have done or said differently.
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Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another.