Jehane Noujaim Quotes
When I hear the words 'activist filmmaking,' I think of somebody who's an activist, who wants to prove a particular point.
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To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.
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I think it's more important than ever to be as vocal as I can be about things I believe in outside of music.
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Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'
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So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces' capabilities, underestimating the enemy, and the associated expectation that the coalition could soon reduce force levels and shift to an exclusively advisory effort.
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People who get rich early should help the rest get rich.
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The key step for an infielder is the first one... but before the ball is hit.
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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.
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I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999.
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I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.
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When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
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Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill – but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.
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The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.
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I've paid my dues in the classical trenches.
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Good actresses can often accomplish miracles, and it is possible to be someone you've never been or will be. But in a sitcom, there's no time.
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We want Quora to last forever, and in order to last forever, it's going to need to have revenue. One of the best things about ads is that you don't need to exclude anyone.
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He was also very clear that the decision to cast me as Cora was all Michael's.
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The whole year I was in LA I got into telemarketing and learned how to make money. Five years later that skill helped me make my first film.
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My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.
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Proper praying is like a person who wanders through a field gathering flowers-one by one, until they make a beautiful bouquet. In the same manner, a person must gather each letter, each syllable, to form them into words of prayer.
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Our life is made by the death of others.
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When I hear the words 'activist filmmaking,' I think of somebody who's an activist, who wants to prove a particular point.
