Joe Carnahan Quotes
It's like I don't have any one genre, I guess. I think you'd be hard-pressed to get me into a rom-com, but who knows?
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I think everybody has to be better, right from me out. Everybody has to step up their games for us to be successful here. I've been lucky to be on some good teams over the years and that's what it takes, everybody contributing night after night.
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If you don't feel like you're ready to get your license - just because people are putting pressure on you, don't feel like you have to rush into something. Take your time, really feel confident and be ready. It doesn't matter what other people say, do what's best for you and makes you feel safe.
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I knew that we were clicking when mimics started kidding my voice, I'll know that I'm on the way out when they stop doing their imitations.
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I don't want to miss out on the chance of having a good time.
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And while I might not always agree with the viewpoint I have to portray, because I play a district attorney, as an actress I can always tell myself that my character is trying to take the moral high ground.
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I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.
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You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
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I would really like to do a straight action movie that's hardcore - heavy action, like 'The Expendables' or 'Fast Five.'
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Certainly, my manager Gary Ungar was the first person to give me any attention and hustle for me. This was back in 2009.
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Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.
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If you told me I could only do one thing, I would choose live concerts.
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Bringing together the unique expertise of researchers from both NYU and the Technion will hopefully enable us to overcome some of the most difficult challenges in treating cancer patients.
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Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships.
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It was really unusual to go from being in university for four years to all of a sudden acting every day. I'd never been able to do it exclusively like that. It was always sort of like my secret thing that I did privately.
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You don't want to have to come into work on Monday already apologizing. I try to save my apologies for what I've done later in the week.
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For me, it's important to build good partnerships rather than score centuries. Once, you have those partnerships, you will also get centuries.
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He testified that when you looked at it through the eyes of 'let's do it', the costs were very small. They were less than they'd had to spend to host a convention of transportation executives. The cost was not that great.
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People say, like, 'Are you a regular person?' 'Well, I'm not a robot, if that's what you're asking, I really am a person.'
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Even though the play [The Best Man] was written a long time ago, the characters seem modern and their struggles to make ends meet and to "have a little fun along the way" have a very contemporary feel. The similarity between the The Great Depression and The Great Recession - as well as the gulf between the super-rich and the ordinary Joe - still rings a bell. One of the things this production accentuates is how beautifully Grandpa and his family accept all kinds of people - rich or poor, black or white - and the best thing that can happen to you is to be part of a loving family.
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Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been surrounded by it.
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The problem that we have in America now is, some people only see the positive stuff and wave off the toxic stuff, and some people only see the toxic stuff and wave off the positive stuff. You can't have an honest conversation.
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I grew up in Sudan and Kenya, and lived in both the rural and urban centers of both countries throughout my life.
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It's like I don't have any one genre, I guess. I think you'd be hard-pressed to get me into a rom-com, but who knows?
