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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Horror movies are all about getting your attention; you always have to be on guard. People love to be on the edge - there's nothing like a surprise.
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Older women have always been attracted to me.
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I didn't even recall being on the DB sessions until Herbie Flowers reminded me a couple of years ago.
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I go from stool to stool in singles bars hoping to get lucky, but there's never any gum under any of them.
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For myself, Queer Eye feeds more to my heart and my soul than as a platform for a career.
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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.
