Jose Padilha Quotes
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There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.
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You can't predict a show, that is the damndest thing, you can't predict if a show is going to work or not until it's on the air.
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Actors are a race.
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Writing never comes easy. The difference between Page 2 and Page Nothing is the difference between life and death.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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As a working-class actor, leaving school with no qualifications, being a printer and then becoming an actor and then working with people who to a certain extent had had a leg up. I never had that advantage. It's less an artistic need to express myself and more a need to prove myself.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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If you're driving, and a cop is behind you, you automatically think they're going to pull you over, but cops have so much more going on than to think about pulling you over. The last thing a real cop wants to do is write a ticket. That's the truth.
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I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.
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I've removed legs from dogs on the bed of my truck on the farm.
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You do have to overcome the child's thinking that this new woman, who is not their mother, is going to be in their lives.
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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
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I want to continue to remain present and grateful each day that I get to be doing what I love. Making and performing music I believe in.
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What's been happening in Iraq, what young Americans wearing flak jackets, helmets and flight suits have done is... created the circumstances under which Iraq can become our closest ally in that part of the world and still have a representative government. And that's going to be a very good thing considering what's going on in that neighborhood.
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Being an actor does make you aware of your age.
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For me, Islam is a moral reference point, a source of inspiration to work collectively with people, to love people and to help them, to concentrate on universal values of mercy, co-operation and tolerance.
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I hate going to bed. I read scripts, clean, listen to the radio - I've fallen asleep to 'This American Life' more times than I can count!
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Whatever you do needs to be sustainable over time, and taking the money in the short term and taking it in a bubble - like buying an Internet stock in 2000 - may not be sustainable.
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Our music is a get-up music. Get you up music, uplift your spirit. That's what I'm trying to give you.
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I look at my time on this earth as social anthropology, at home and in work life.
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It's tempting to engage in anti-gun polemics and hope that popular opinion will dramatically shift, but it is also likely a mistake. The smarter course for those who want stronger federal gun-control laws anytime soon is legislative stewardship and compromise.
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Popular things have fans. It's not about me; it's about what we've made that people feel a connection to.
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Well, I'm not that popular with the politicians, I have to say.
