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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Everything can be going well, but if I'm not writing, I'm not happy. When I'm writing well, I'm like a different person.
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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 always leave a box of unsalted almonds in my house. A handful of those are a good snack that should keep you satisfied.
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The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.
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We're friends...And what that means is this: I won't let anyone hurt you. Not if I can stop it.
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Few things are more important to each individual's future success or to our nation's prosperity than education.
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It's important in any project to remain focused.
