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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"World War III, was the Cold War, and the U.S. won it".
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I have two children myself. I always laugh; they have you playing mothers pretty early, us women. You look at the television, the mothers get younger and younger, and the children get older and older, and you start to wonder when these people had these children. Were they breeding when they were 12?
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Cover versions, that's my forte, that's all I ever used to do. When you play your own songs, it's quite scary, 'cause I'm quite honest and open, they can be very revealing. But covers, I don't have to think about, just get me up there!
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If you want a religion that makes sense, then I suggest something other than Christianity. But if you want a religion that makes life, then, I think this is the one.
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Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another.
