Nia Long Quotes
I have been in situations where actors are treated like robots: say the lines, say it like this, we don't have time for conversations. That is a terrible position to be in as an artist. You feel used.
Quotes to Explore
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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One of the ideas that was developed at MIT in a workshop was, imagine this pipe, and you've got valves, solenoid valves, taps, opening and closing. You create like a water curtain with pixels made of water. If those pixels fall, you can write on it: you can show patterns, images, text.
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That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.
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I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.
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When I recorded my solo album, 'Keep It Hid,' in 2008, I'd gotten more interested in songwriting, inspired by reading Charles Bukowski and connecting with unfancy, interesting language.
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I think the thing that L.A. had on Sydney is an awesome music scene, especially for what I do.
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Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.
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It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.
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The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
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She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
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I want to teach. I've got to figure a way to continue doing this in some capacity.
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It was a deliberate decision to act in family entertainers like 'Govindudu Andari Vadele' and 'Bruce Lee.'
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Not that I want everything right now; but I do want everything.
Nastassja Kinski -
I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.
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It costs more money to put a person on death row than it does to lock them up for the rest of their lives because of attorney fees.
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The crew on 'Three Bilboards,' by the way, is one of the best I've ever worked with. And that's not hyperbole.
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We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
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I saw 'Brokeback Mountain' in a packed house in Chelsea, New York, when I was filming a Bollywood film there. Chelsea, being a predominately gay neighbourhood, had the most euphoric reaction. I saw couples holding hands and crying at the end. It was the most heartening viewing I have ever been to.
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Remember, while the work can sometimes appear to be simple to a viewer, the ability to perform expertly, consistently, precisely, over and over again, under pressure and on demand is what's needed.
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The usefulest truths are the plainest.
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I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
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I have been in situations where actors are treated like robots: say the lines, say it like this, we don't have time for conversations. That is a terrible position to be in as an artist. You feel used.
