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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You know, I believe that technology is the great leveler. Technology permits anybody to play. And in some ways, I think technology - it's not only a great tool for democratization, but it's a great tool for eliminating prejudice and advancing meritocracies.
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I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.
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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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When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school textbooks in the hope of enlisting impressionable youths in their cause.
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I have a family I love. They tend to say, 'Great job!' Or 'You work really hard! Good for you!' Or 'You look nice today!' Or 'Don't be ridiculous, order the fries!' Or 'You are hilarious.' That's all the family I need.
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The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed.
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I have made that one of my policies never to play anything that I've already put on record.
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It's important in any project to remain focused.
