Eddie Obeng Quotes
We spend our time responding rationally to a world which we understand and recognize, but which no longer exists.
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.
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The less you have, the more you enjoy.
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If you're going to make a sequel to 'Sicario', you have to - you know, you've got to go beat a brand new path.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.
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If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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Most Americans are more concerned about the economy and job creation. And they can't understand why the Obama administration or the Democrat majority in Congress wants to pass a bill like the cap-and-trade tax that will cost us jobs, that will hurt our economy, that will drive up costs for families, as well as for small businesses.
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I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.
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Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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I would go visit my mom on Sundays, and my brother was working on stuff. I'd go in there and sing a little melody, then we started working with words and the next thing you know it was just born organically without really trying.
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My favourite job hands down - and I think I can speak for everyone involved - was 'Breaking Bad.'
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If Spider-Man is your ground level superhero, I wanted to come up with a ground-level villain. I wanted to figure out if I could turn a regular guy into a super-villain.
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People saw me as being heroic, but I was no more heroic than I was with other injuries I had, like the lacerated kidney I suffered during the 1990 World Series. It's just that people haven't known anyone with a lacerated kidney, but everyone can relate to someone with cancer.
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If someone plays a brooding actor in a film, people think they're brooding all the time.
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I learned a long time ago to be honest when I'm talking to other artists. Up-and-coming artists used to come and say something, they would have a demo reel, and I would try to tell them the truth. I don't go up and say something unless I really feel it.
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I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life, and stir with an uneasy, half vital motion. Frightful must it be; for supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavour to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world.
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We spend our time responding rationally to a world which we understand and recognize, but which no longer exists.
