Jasmila Zbanic Quotes
I have always written - since I was a kid. I might say that I am essentially a writer who is bored to be alone in the room writing. I need to have more people around me. So, I 'write' with a film camera and have a party at the same time by having a bunch of people around.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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There's certain things as a songwriter that I don't really care to write about, and there are certain things I won't sing about anymore. There are just so many things that I probably thought was OK for me, or have been in the past, that I would never want my son to think was OK.
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Often I pretended to a cameraman to know less than I did. That way I got more cooperation.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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The U.S. should worry about the effects of its polices on the rest of the world. We would like to live in a world where countries take into account the effect of their policies on other countries and do what is right, broadly, rather than what is just right given the circumstances of that country.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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I don't try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can.
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I wouldn't do a film like 'The Dirty Picture.' I have a husband and kids, and I won't be able to do justice to such a role. You need a certain mentality and ease to carry such a character.
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Have I been wiretapped? Yes. But who they said wiretapped me was incorrect.
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With 'posts' running in the millions, Internet message boards have become an essential part of the savvy investor's arsenal.
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We're the first not-white family to ever live in the governor's mansion. My son-in-law is Puerto Rican. I have a beautiful little granddaughter who is half Korean and half Latina. I'm the only white guy in the house.
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Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.
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There is no more apartheid in South Africa than in the United States.
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I started out as a stand-up comedian. And that's what I'm most comfortable doing.
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One does not allow the plumbers to decide the temperature, depth and timing of a bath.
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For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people.
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You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.
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I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my part.
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Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at.
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People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
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When I was a child, my December weekends were spent making cards, decorating the tree, hanging the wreath and preparing brandy butter and peppermint creams.
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I have always written - since I was a kid. I might say that I am essentially a writer who is bored to be alone in the room writing. I need to have more people around me. So, I 'write' with a film camera and have a party at the same time by having a bunch of people around.
