Jose Padilha Quotes
If you publish a scientific paper it is very hard to start a nationwide debate about something. If you do this in a movie, you can start a debate. We like to create a bridge between those two worlds - film and science.
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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I'm a big fan of Katy Perry.
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People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.
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Once I actually get in the studio and I start working, I'm fine, but it's just getting there and these hours of torment with myself and self doubt, thinking 'I'm useless' and 'Who am I, conning myself into thinking I can do it again.'
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If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
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On many different singles, I was able to marry my music with rappers who understood the natural bond between us.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.
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I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.
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People think they have to give up things to make a difference to the world, but you don't have to.
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I fell in love with acting. I thought, 'This is what I want to do.'
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Being a musician, it's my job to be real and be true to whoever I am. Hopefully that will inspire other people. I hope it inspires people to be themselves and be comfortable in your own skin.
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I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
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Palestine is the issue, and until this issue is resolved, there can be no peace.
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In Mexico, theater is very underground, so if you're a theater actor it's very difficult to make a living. But it's also a very beautiful pathway to knowledge and to an open education.
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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
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At 7-1, your pitching has obviously controlled that other team. At 16-10, I'm not sure when it's safe.
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I tried martial arts classes for three weeks, but I quit because you actually get hit. I just want to do the movie kind of martial arts.
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Let us make an arbitrary decision (by a show of hands if necessary) to define the base of every stratigraphical unit in a selected section. This may be called the "Principle of the Golden Spike." Then stratigraphical nomenclature can be forgotten and we can get on with the real work of stratigraphy, which is correlation and interpretation.
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I have looked further into space than ever human being did before me. I have observed stars of which the light, it can be proved, must take two million years to reach the earth.
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If you publish a scientific paper it is very hard to start a nationwide debate about something. If you do this in a movie, you can start a debate. We like to create a bridge between those two worlds - film and science.
