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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'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'
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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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I don't have a fear factor. Well, not much of one. And I'm willing to risk quite a lot - as a comedian, you're always risking a lot. You're risking failure, especially if you're improvising and going on TV shows trying to make comedy out of thin air. That is quite a risky business.
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In writing about Harold and Maureen with their terrible unspoken secret, and all those people that Harold meets as he walks to save a friend's life, I was trying to celebrate the ordinary people.
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I am sure there is only one solution, that is for me to remove myself from the King's life. That is what I am doing now.
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I don't think that there's necessarily a side to drama that has to be completely bleak. You have to have a flicker of humor 'cause everyone has a flicker of humor, something they find funny in life.
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But why,... if you have a serious comment to make on the real life of men, must you do it by talking about a phantasmagoric never-never land of your own? Because, I take it, one of the main things the author wants to say is that the real life of men is of that mythical and heroic quality.
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Nothing seemed as scary as waking up at 40 and realizing that I had not lived a very courageous life.
