Jasmila Zbanic Quotes
I am successful if I manage to make a film that I want and if it works emotionally for the audience and if it stays with them after the screening and means something for them. Awards or money have symbolic power.
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.
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In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
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The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.
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I like egg white omelets with veggies, or oatmeal with almonds and fruit.
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Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.
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I truly believe diversity is beauty.
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There's a lot of females that hustle, just like men hustle.
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Confining marine animals to tanks and separating them from their families and their natural surroundings, just so people can watch them swim in endless circles, teaches us far more about humans than it does about animals - and the lesson is not a flattering one.
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There's no way you can win when you're the president; you've got to be the scapegoat for America's issues.
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It's possible that you have been told a time or 10 that you don't appreciate how tough your elders had it. It's true that, if you had been coming of age back in, say, 1960, you would probably be feeling more restricted, if only because you were doomed to spend your days in a skirt, nylon stockings and girdle.
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I'm missing work. We didn't have enough money for preschool. I had a panic attack. I couldn't do it. I became one of those horrible foster parents who give the kids back.
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It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.
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It's definitely a necessity to make split-second decisions when you're doing gymnastics because things don't always go perfect.
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When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.
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We have over 500,000 illegal immigrants living in Arizona. And we simply cannot sustain it. It costs us a tremendous amount of money of course in health care, in education, and then, on top of it all, in incarceration. And the federal government doesn't reimburse us on any of these things.
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I try to be respectful about getting an honor or recognition, but I don't really know what the Rock Hall actually is. In my experience with the people who run it, I don't see it having to do with anything other than them making money.
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In my business, guys may age, but it's not even a question they're valued. But women my age are supposed to disappear.
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It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people's imagination, and all of them were very difficult women.
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War is the health of the State and it is during war that one best understands the nature of that institution.
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I am successful if I manage to make a film that I want and if it works emotionally for the audience and if it stays with them after the screening and means something for them. Awards or money have symbolic power.
