Ephraim Mirvis Quotes
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Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
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In the end, I think the majority of Romanian society will understand that if we respect environmental protection standards, if we have benefits in taxes, royalties, jobs, we should do what all the modern countries in Europe and beyond are doing to take advantage of their natural resources.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.
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Now while the German money is over for Hollywood, I still have $80 million to make movies, and we will have two things coming up: less major movies and the price for actors will go down.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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At its core, banking is not simply about profit, but about personal relationships.
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I think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to consume it. It's always a balance.
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Don't take 'no' for an answer.
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The arts are an integral part of the city's economic progress.
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One of the first coaches I worked with on the national team told me that I was too skinny, too puny, and had no natural acceleration. He said I'd be better off looking for another facet of sport to follow. That was a really, really bad moment. For a long time, I felt as if my dad was the only one who had faith in me.
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I've been on stage since I was 7. That's where I'd rather be than anywhere else. Just because you can do a bunch of things doesn't mean you are a bunch of things. I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer.
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I'm the easiest person to make fun of.
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I was taught to confront things you can't avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where you're trying not to look at it is stupid because looking at death throws us back into life with more vigour and energy. The fact that flowers don't last for ever makes them beautiful.
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VR is going to be defined by the content that is designed explicitly for virtual reality.
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The project of Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man' is exactly that: to assert the beautiful, bountiful, chaotic complexity of one black American male. And, by extension, all black American males.
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Only the guys who never made it and will never make it in the U.S. need to put up the front that they don't care about America.
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I know some children's writers write for specific children, or for the children they once were, but I never have. I just thought children might like my sort of visual humour.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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This is probably going to surprise people, but if you were to do a scan around the globe on public policy concerning our industry, you would probably have to conclude that the United States has the policy that has been, I believe, the most pro competition.
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It is a difficult one, as you get scripts where women are just objects.
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De Niro was a hero of mine. And Sean Penn. But I've realized I can't operate at that level of intensity. That's okay for movies. On TV, when you live with horror day in and day out, you have to protect yourself.
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This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.
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'Rabbi' means 'teacher,' and I see the role of chief rabbi as chief teacher.
