Jehane Noujaim Quotes
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When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied it even if I had heard of it.
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Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
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Trying to think about the rest of the team over myself or my scoring is something that I never really had to do before.
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If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
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There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.
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I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
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Basically, after an ABC sitcom I did, I ended up with a holding deal with 20th Century Fox. Absolutely cool. It pays you to be unemployed. And the bigger the entity that gives you the deal, the better.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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I'm not sad at all about turning 40.
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I didn't realize that winning the Olympics at age 14 automatically put me in the category of being a celebrity.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.
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I want to be a major force.
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If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.
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You don't have to do anything in the movies. You just sit there. Well, that's not entirely true. You do less.
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You don't get second chances in the real world.
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Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us.
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I am much more understanding of people than I used to be when I was young - people were either villainous or wonderful. They were painted in very bright colours. The bad side of it - and there is a corollary to everything - is that when we get older, we fuss more. I used to despise people who fussed.
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I got a tiny part in a play, auditioned for another one and got that as well. Not only that, the first finished on the Saturday and the other started on the Monday which is like an actor's dream!
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I did 32 years of political cartoons, one every day for six days a week, I wrote and drew every word, every line. That body of work is the one I'm proudest of.
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It is hard to go back into a world that has already been explored, so to speak. And the fans are very passionate about it, and you don't want to burst that bubble; you don't want to break that illusion. You want to get it right. You want it to feel familiar, but also surprising.
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A commitment to human rights cannot be fostered simply through the transmission of knowledge. Action and experience play a crucial role in the learning process.
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It's important in any project to remain focused.
