Sacha Baron Cohen Quotes
To single out a particular group and say we can't make a joke about them is almost a form of prejudice and it's kind of patronizing.
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I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary.
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I converse with my dog through ESP.
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Inappropriateness is funny to me. Rudeness is hilarious.
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I've been told I have an aggressive driving style.
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I found I could speak louder and was more comfortable if I was doing it in someone else's crazy voice.
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The team needs me out there on the field. And sometimes you allow that to jeopardize yourself, but that's just the nature of the world.
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So much of writing isn't the fun parts like we get to discuss. It is sitting there putting the words down.
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I sometimes feel that the world is a very uncivilised place where it is meant to be at its most civilised. Where it's meant to be intellectual or artistic or compassionate, it isn't, and that makes me very angry.
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.
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It is all very well and it sounds very seductive to say we are going to have harmonisation of regulations, but for example the way that funds are distributed around the states these days, you are positively penalised if you actually want to have say a lower payroll tax or sort of conditions.
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The combination of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice lifts the spirits in winter.
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You have to free your mind to do things you wouldn't think of doing. Don't ever say no.
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I've always been in love with the States. When I was a kid, we would take these long summer holidays in Texas, Nashville, and all over. I fell in love with the people, the food, even the smell. You don't necessarily get that in old Europe.
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My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also.
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I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
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If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
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I liked to play dress-up.
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I have no interest in going to Egypt and seeing the pyramids. I'm just not that kind of dude.
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My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.
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I just decided that I would not put my professional life on hold to raise children. I know that sounds selfish to a lot of people and I don't know if what I'm doing is the right thing. But that's the way I'm doing it.
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Every story I write is different. Some are hard. Some aren't. 'Chronicle' was tremendously easy. I have a hard time comparing my process on different things, but I will say this: The more you write, the better you get at it. That's one of the few things that's markedly true.
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Life's too mysterious to take too serious.
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To single out a particular group and say we can't make a joke about them is almost a form of prejudice and it's kind of patronizing.
