Jeff Baena Quotes
I don't like the idea of seeing a movie and it feels comfortable because you've heard it before.
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Feeling has as much to say as the words do. You can have the greatest words in the world and if they're not believable, they don't strike a chord and they're not said convincingly, it's not a great song.
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Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.
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I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.
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When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.
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Around 1960, I moved back to Europe, attracted by the newly founded European Organization for Nuclear Research where, for the first time, the idea of a joint European effort in a field of pure science was to be tried in practice.
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You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
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I've had every hair style imaginable.
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I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.
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I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in Western novels - more real, more quintessentially of Istanbul.
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'Islamism' itself is such a broad and nearly meaningless word as used by the mainstream Western press, including everything from Turkey's AKP party to al Qaeda.
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And now I have a big house, nice clothes and I travel in first class and I love it, so maybe it's time to enjoy being a star.
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If there's no fire, there's no scream. If there's no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.
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I'm just going to be myself; there's no reason for me to try and go out there and put a certain facade on or emphasize, 'Hey, I'm this. You need to believe it.' I just want to be the best that I can be, and if people like me, that's great, and if they don't, they don't.
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Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water slide?'
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You feel like you're really a part of a movement when you're singing Journey at a karaoke bar.
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I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.
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Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
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In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
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I went into umpiring at age 16. I got into officiating because of the fact that I could not stand the referees that worked our basketball games.
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Invisible Boy was fun. Everybody else's character, they knew where they were at already as a superhero. But invisible boy's character, you kind of grow up with him within the movie.
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In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.
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We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?
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Any Westerner can now buy a Koran for a dollar and burn it, while any Muslim with a platform can transform that act into a fighting offense. As passions rise on both sides of the divide, Western provocateurs and Islamist hotheads have found each other, as confrontations occur with increasing frequency.
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I don't like the idea of seeing a movie and it feels comfortable because you've heard it before.
