Joel Silver Quotes
I've made a lot of stupid action films in my life but I like stupid action films and am kind of proud of them.
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.
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In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn't white and I wasn't black. I trained in Baragwanath Hospital, the largest black hospital in South Africa. That was around 1976, the time of the Soweto Uprising, when police fired on children and students who were protesting. I was part of the group of interns who volunteered to treat them.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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I think I'd be a great mom, honestly. I don't think I'll have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part.
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Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.
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Obviously I'm not 21 anymore, but I think I can still throw with anybody.
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A woman's health is her capital.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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By the end of 2020, the only region of the world that will still have a lot of 2G connections may be Africa.
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It's easy when you have suffered to feel the link with what others have gone through.
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I'm a pro-life candidate because I believe that science is proving us right every day.
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You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts – in fact, the noblest of the arts. That is not my opinion; it was first expressed by the ancients. As art, literature has many similarities with the other art forms.
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There were definitely dark nights when you're like, 'Maybe joining the military wasn't such a good idea.' But, in a way, it was the best training to be an actor.
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There were no theatre facilities at the comp that I went to, but I did have amazing teachers who never stopped encouraging me.
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I tore my abdomen. That ended my football career, which was what I wanted to do my entire life, and when that was over, I pretty much looked to just about anything, but nothing really caught my interest.
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Life is a sandwich of activity between two periods of bed-wetting.
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They're paying me an outrageous sum of money; $40,000 a week, which is totally silly.
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We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
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Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.
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I've made a lot of stupid action films in my life but I like stupid action films and am kind of proud of them.
