Jose Padilha Quotes
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My own brand will stand or fall because of me. Dior won't fall if I fall. It will also still stand if I'm not there. I'm coming in there, and it's like a – I don't know the English word – like a passage.
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Cursive writing does not mean what I think it does.
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I spent 250 to 300 days of every year on the road. But in the end, I felt something was missing. I needed to be anchored so I could concentrate, so in 2000, I established a new methodology - the one I use today. I spent the week in my office and travelled every weekend, even at Christmas.
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I've always thought Shawn Michaels's story is fascinating.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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Eight o'clock is hard no matter what network you're on because people have to make a decision to sit down and start watching TV. Every other time slot is a time slot that happens after someone's watching something else.
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I just always want to play people. I don't want it to be necessarily that you relate to the character as female or male, but that you relate to them as a person. That's the driving force.
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To me, cinema is not a movie or a TV screen, and it's not a seat in a building versus one in your living room. It's the art of motion pictures.
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Victims and survivors deserve more than a person seeking a headline.
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India may be the only country in the world that has been free of anti-Semitic prejudice throughout its history.
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World Cups can be career-defining.
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When I started stand-up, the first thing I did was to take an improv class.
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If we just made one movie, 'The Hobbit,' the fact is that all the fans, the eight-, nine- and 10-year-old boys, they would watch it 1,000 times. Now, they've got three films they can watch 1,000 times.
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I haven't worn one for a long time, but I look pretty good in a suit.
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They have a tendency to get beaten up or thrown off a cliff, I know. Why does that happen with me?
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He was not merely a chip of the old Block, but the old Block itself.
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If I were writing the Bill of Rights now there wouldn’t be any such thing as the Second Amendment . . . . This has been the subject of one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word fraud, on the American public by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime.
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An irrational fear should never be simply let alone, but should be gradually overcome by familiarity with its fainter forms.
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Why is it so important to affirm a child? Because a child who is truly accepted by his parents and/or influencing adults can growing up learning to accept himself. Without a constant, debilitating sense of guilt and defeat, he will become at ease with himself. He'll be able to admit his own failures and weaknesses. He'll be able to forget himself and love others. He won't spend his energies worrying about what people think of him, and he won't spend his energies putting down others.
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Women are not only deciding the outcome of elections, they serve as important role models for their daughters and other young women - they hold a key to expanding the way in which women value and experience politics.
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It is impossible for a Christian to be a relativist.
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Higher education is booming in the United States; the Gross National Mind is mounting along with the Gross National Product.
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I have kiddingly called it the 'Super Bowl,' which obviously can be improved upon.
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Either you look back and deal with your hypocrisy, or you dismiss it.
