Brit Marling Quotes
Nothing seemed as scary as waking up at 40 and realizing that I had not lived a very courageous life.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to make films. That's really all I ever wanted to do.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors.
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I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was playing cricket, I wasn't happy. I would just sit and cry. I was very young. He was too young; he shouldn't have gone. Cricket is all right. We all play sport. Good and bad days come.
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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
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This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.
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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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There is a need for the European Union to use all potential we have on defense cooperation.
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I need one psychological expert to help me concentrate.
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As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.
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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
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The Sino-Indian War in 1962 has fundamentally shaped and distorted Indian attitudes towards China. It also obscured a great deal of what has happened in China since 1962.
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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Things said by political parties are different from the decisions of the government which are taken to uphold the rule of law. The government takes decisions that are best for the country.
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She told me that she would support me regardless of what I decided, but I'm so glad that I actually got to be a kid before having to grow up. My mom knows best about this kind of thing.
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There was a time when I was in the South, singing, and someone came to me before the show and said, 'There's been a threat on your life. Someone had phoned in and said they were going to shoot you if you go on stage.' I was singing 'Chances Are,' and I kept moving so they wouldn't have a shot at me.
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Sammy was the only one that looked like me, so I naturally gravitated to him. Sammy made it cool to be black at a time when, let's just say it, it wasn't very cool to be black. His name was on the front of the building in lights, and he had to go in the back. But you never saw him sweat.
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I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself.
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If I could change anything, I would definitely have had a father around. My father. I would definitely say it affected me deeply as a young man, coming up. Who doesn't want a father? Those are the beginnings, and those are what can dictate the roads you choose in life, and choosing them well.
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I never intended to become a commercial filmmaker in the first place. What I do requires time and experimentation. Commercial work is often not the best way to get the most innovative work, because it's about money and marketing. Although advertising is now embracing non-commercial people.
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Nothing seemed as scary as waking up at 40 and realizing that I had not lived a very courageous life.
