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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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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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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Study the field that you want to get into and know everything about it.
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Here, the broader issues are already familiar, and discussion has focused at a more sophisticated and detailed level. Within the philosophy of mind, the problem of consciousness is no big news.
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I wasn't getting the responses I hoped for. You can't protect yourself from other judgments.
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The satisfactions people derive from what they do are determined to a large degree by their self-evaluative standards
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I nauseate walking; 'tis a country diversion, I loathe the country.
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You are Joseph the dreamer of dreams, dear Jude. And a tragic Don Quixote. And sometimes you are St. Stephen, who, while they were stoning him, could see Heaven opened. Oh, my poor friend and comrade, you'll suffer yet!
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I studied everyone in the business of entertainment: Dr. Dre, Diddy, everyone. Rob Dyrdek was big for me. He would get 2 million views a week on 'Rob and Big,' and from that sprung everything: DC shoes, Monster Energy, 'Fantasy Factory,' everything.
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At 26, I was single, living in Manhattan, and working as a journalist at 'Vanity Fair.' I was Carrie Bradshaw... in sensible shoes.
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Either you look back and deal with your hypocrisy, or you dismiss it.
