Jasmila Zbanic Quotes
As a woman filmmaker in Bosnia, I have more privileges than disadvantages. I feel I can do more than my male colleagues with a motherly approach rather than a male approach.
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Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.
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I decided there and then to sue the bastards.
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I was drawn to things I thought were either sexy or aggressive - or both.
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Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!
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The Bushes were certainly part of Texas in their mind, but they didn't have the kind of political flavor that you normally find in Texas politicians. It's just Texas is such a unique place to itself that politically, at least so far, they haven't found anybody to play nationally.
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I molded myself against le Front National. Against hate speech, be it racist, sexist, xenophobic, or homophobic. Against the kind of injustice I faced during my own life.
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A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.
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My sister Kathleen - one year older - was the school's acting legend. Her thing was getting all the parts, even Tiresias. And I wasn't going to mess with that.
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In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.
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Too often, we see wedge politics and petty rhetoric used to belittle adversaries and inflame partisan divisions.
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I understand why war is not popular, but I also know this: The belief that peace is desirable is rarely enough to achieve it. Peace requires responsibility. Peace entails sacrifice. That's why NATO continues to be indispensable. That's why we must strengthen U.N. and regional peacekeeping, and not leave the task to a few countries.
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Voices were blended and intermingled in a tumultuous swirl around which eddied laughter, shouts, the squeaking of doors and windows, piano and accordion music, rollicking handclaps, a policeman's bark, braying, grunts, coughs of hashish addicts and screams of drunkards, anonymous calls for help, raps of a stick, and singing by individuals and groups.
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It is of fundamental importance not to make the positivist mistake of assuming that because a group’s members are in formation this means that they’re necessarily on course.
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I have deeply regretted that I did not proceed far enough at least to understand something of the great leading principles of mathematics, for men thus endowed seem to have an extra sense.
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Men are only too clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
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Open the doors that lead on in to EdenDon't want no cheap disguise.I follow the signs marked back to the beginning,No more compromise.
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There is a red and angry world... Red things happen there. The world eats your wife... Eats your friends... Eats all the things... that make you human... And you become a monster. And the world... just keeps on eating.
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Inside a religious body you get sects and hierarchies, inside an information network you get bazaars and cathedrals, it is the same, call them what you like. They survive by pointing the finger of blame at each other.
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The one who tries to get something for nothing generally winds up getting nothing for something.
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There's always nerves when you're releasing something.
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All dreams appear impossible until somebody makes them happen.
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I'm a first-generation American, so I had friends from several cultures while growing up, including Indian and Iranian friends.
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Seth wished he had kept the zombie hand.
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As a woman filmmaker in Bosnia, I have more privileges than disadvantages. I feel I can do more than my male colleagues with a motherly approach rather than a male approach.
