Jasmila Zbanic Quotes
I have never understood why people identify with criminals: even if your father and grandfather were criminal, you have to find a way to be free.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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I love morning television because it's the most vulnerable time of day, when you are at your rawest, and if I have the ability to make viewers smile, that's a gift from God.
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There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.
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An alliance of civilisations can be our most powerful weapon in the fight against terror.
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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I write songs, and I sing them. I never formulated a plan; I can't tell anyone else how to do this. But it feels right, so I just kind of enjoy it and get on with it.
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In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.
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Anytime you do something in this arena, whether it's public records or ethics, it's not like throwing a stone in a quiet pond. It's like throwing a boulder.
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One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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I remember when I was in third grade, I was in a classroom, and the teacher said, 'What do you want to do when you get older?' We were going around the room. I said, 'I want to be a professional basketball player.' She's like, 'That's not realistic.' I thought to myself, 'OK, watch.'
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A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
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And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.
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Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.
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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
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I've always considered myself to look like a rather plain-and-exhausted bluestocking, so it's rather odd to read Tweets commenting on my appearance.
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My brother told me I was going to be a poet. I had a good brother. He did a lot of good brotherly work.
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It's just not easy enough to say that I pray and God will accomplish.
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I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write books but just can't put a story together. I can put together a story that interests both me and my readers.
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Do not dump your woes upon people - keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.
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Five billion people have played Hamlet. 'To be or not to be.' And how do you do that and find your way into your own journey, your own way of telling it?
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I have never understood why people identify with criminals: even if your father and grandfather were criminal, you have to find a way to be free.
