Jeffrey Skoll Quotes
My goal was to leverage the power of movies and the reach they have and include important messages. Of course, they still have to be entertaining so that people will watch them, but I wanted to make sure there was a message, a takeaway.
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My feeling is, I do a lot of low-budget films. I don't do low-budget acting. I have no interest in just goofballing my way through, thinking, 'Ah, no one's ever going to see this anyway.'
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As far as Israel, I am not worried about the relations between Israel and the United States.
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I'm an actress, not a pinup.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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You can't be taught to be brainy. You've either got it or you don't.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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Things get so sloppy when you're under the influence.
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Tennis is definitely a star for women in sports.
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There's something really fun about being scared, and I guess that was at least part of why I wanted to film certain scenes from my new book, 'Skeleton Creek.'
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Alanis Morissette - I love how she's not afraid to say what she wants to say. Love it or hate it, she's going to say it. And her vocals are crazy; they're amazing, and I also love how her music is really organic.
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I always wake up 10 minutes before I have to be anywhere.
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As President Trump quickly moved to limit immigration, civil rights, and environmental protections, I felt fear for my young children, and guilt, too - as if I'd somehow betrayed the unspoken contract all parents make to give our children a better life than ourselves.
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I'm in a monogamous relationship and very happy.
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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
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Spiritual formation is character formation. Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education; it's just a matter of which one you get.
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How good we all are, in theory, to the old; and how in fact we wish them to wander off like old dogs, die without bothering us, and bury themselves.
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I don't want to be like Donald Trump or anything like it... I'm different than some people.
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It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experiences when one is young. The sky was so bright, and there were so many stars that, gazing upward, one couldn't help wondering how so many whimsical, wicked people could live under such a sky.
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In the moment when you're doing a show, you're thinking of that moment, but you don't think of, 'Here's down the line how people will be relating to the characters.' There's something very universal about 'Sex and the City' that people are still tapping into, where every generation seems to be discovering for itself.
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My goal was to leverage the power of movies and the reach they have and include important messages. Of course, they still have to be entertaining so that people will watch them, but I wanted to make sure there was a message, a takeaway.
