Oscar Isaac Quotes
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	I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.   
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	Today, not to take away from any of the present artists, but music has gotten a little shallow, in my opinion. Everybody's talking about the same thing: sex, money, clothes, cheating... I want to open up not necessarily better conversations, but, in my opinion, more important ones, and touch on things that are actually going on.   
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	When you write a play, you work out like a musician on a piece of music. You find all the rhythms and the melody and the harmonies and take them as they come.   
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	My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.   
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	When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.   
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	I think it's time we all agree that gender stereotypes are simply the confabulation of our own mind.   
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	During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.   
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	My job was to get a fair and open hearing to all ideas.   
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	It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.   
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	There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.   
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	No, you will never see me on 'Dancing With the Stars.' Sorry.   
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	It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'   
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	What I do miss that I don't get anymore? You're going to think I'm crazy, but you want the truth, so here it is. The lights! I miss the spotlights. I don't mean it figuratively. I mean it literally. I love the feeling of lights.   
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	When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.   
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	There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.   
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	To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.   
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	I love going back and forth from drama to comedy. I love switching it around and showing people that I can do both.   
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	No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.   
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	[The publication of his first poem] was wonderful ... but it taught me early on that the only thing that really matters is writing the next poem. Publication is best seen as a happy accident.   
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	I'd love to do all types of film, not just comedy, although I love comedy.   
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	I was 12 and I remember everything. I mean, I had done two films before that. The first was actually with Amy Heckerling. It was so brilliant to work with her on my first film. Atonement was the third one I'd done, and I remember how it felt to arrive on set every day. I remember how it felt to get my wig off at the end of the day. I remember how hot it was.   
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	I pretty much believe that a film is a film and when an audience watches a film, they finish it.   
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	'Mojave' is a very wild, throwback film with these two dudes going after each other.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					