Oscar Isaac Quotes
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What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.
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The financial catastrophe of 2008 nearly precipitated a calamitous economic depression, jolting America and much of the West into a sudden recognition of their systemic vulnerability to unregulated greed.
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Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
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Ninety percent of the comic books I've written in the past had little or nothing to do with Islam.
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I always regret leaving home if I don't get at least four or five surfs in the week before I leave. I try to be in the water as much as possible before leaving, and it's the one thing I miss massively.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.
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I'm past my wooing days now. See, I am an honest person. If I like a girl, I will go and tell her.
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I'm totally a geek.
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How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.
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I would see anything by Antony Gormley.
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Cows are gentle, interesting animals.
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Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.
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Sometimes I wake up, I feel like, I'm like 80-years-old.
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With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.
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To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.
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When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.
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The only way to get love is to be lovable. It's very irritating if you have a lot of money. You'd like to think you could write a check: 'I'll buy a million dollars' worth of love.' But it doesn't work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.
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You can observe a lot by just watching.
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I didn't even know I could sing or write songs. I didn't have that education. But people shouldn't think they can look down on someone like me, because I've had the same success as others, sold the same amount of records, if not more. They shouldn't think that because I'm just from 'The X Factor,' I'm not credible or respected as much.
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You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.
