Gene Green Quotes
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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
Barbara Kingsolver -
My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
Kapil Sibal -
There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.
Natasha Lyonne -
Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
Tamsin Greig -
Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
N. Scott Momaday -
I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
Ralph Bakshi
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People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.
Dan Gilbert -
No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
Zane Grey -
We interpret our agreement with the IMF - our participation in the IMF's system of cooperation - as a borrowing agreement. The IMF sees it as an economic policy agreement. This is not in our interest.
Viktor Orban -
I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round.
Ian Mckellen -
I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.
Valerie June -
We are never racist against somebody who is very far away. I don't know any racism against the Eskimos. To have a racist feeling, there must be an other who is slightly different from us - but is living close to us.
Umberto Eco
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When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white.
Sam Mendes -
A manager gets in the Hall of Fame by what his players have done for him.
Earl Weaver -
I like the slow Scandinavian pace. I don't need cliffhangers in every chapter because I don't want to make a Hollywood movie out of it.
Hakan Nesser -
Sometimes I feel like a man; sometimes I feel like a child.
Tali Lennox -
I'm a big routine guy. I have to have everything in threes.
Sam Bradford -
My dream is to stand in front of 60,000 people in an arena and know that everyone came because they wanted to make memories with me.
Zara Larsson
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Directing first film was terrified, it was really very scary because there is a lot of responsibility. I think I was terrified because I wanted it to work so much. A lot of actors direct movies but I thought the stakes were kind of higher for me because I really, really cared. I just worked as hard as I possibly could on every single thing, every single day. I said that if this failed it would not be because I didn't work as hard as I possibly could...every day.
Ben Affleck -
I write music, really, to make myself feel better.
Jenny Lewis -
I feel powerless all the time, but I regain my energy by making a very small difference that won’t cost me much.
Ai Weiwei -
Refineries are very energy-intensive.
Gene Green