Haris Pasovic Quotes
Individual acts have made Europe a civilized place and are key to its development. We must not forget it.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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I used to have to force myself to go, okay, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing and then all of a sudden a thought of some where could come in. Now I can just focus and not think about anything. So, yeah, I guess I do that a lot.
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I recognized that I had a window of opportunity that had opened because of my exposure as an actor.
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I'm in production year round. I work long hours. I have a dog and a wife. There's not a lot of available time for consuming any culture: T.V., movies, books. When I read, it's generally magazines, newspapers and web sites.
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It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it's very pleasing after writing something like 'Atonement' or 'On Chesil Beach,' which are historical, to get involved in some plausible re-enactment of the here and now.
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I'm very spiritual. I meditate every day. I don't know if that's surprising or not, but I've been doing that since I was 16 every day, so that's like kind of my thing. I'm really a hippie-chick at heart.
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn't quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish and anti-materialistic but wanting to sell things like Wozniak's board. Wanting to create a business.
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I deliberately try not to cater for the commercial market, so I can't see myself in competition, you know, with second or third generation rock stars.
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Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings.
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My father usually does not talk to me about my films, and it was a pleasant moment when he appreciated me the first time.
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Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
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I hadn't realized the number of people that are still interested in listening to what I am doing, people I would never know about if not for being online.
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I think people try so hard to learn everything that they miss all the wonderful essentials. There is so much mystery in life that you should leave a mystery.
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So no, I don't think we've lost our edge at all.
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I want to sit with 80- and 90-year-old people more than anyone. They have played this game before. Not one of them has told me, 'I wish I had more money.'
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People think it's very strange because I love whale watching - you don't see whales a lot where I'm from.
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It's important to produce economic development. Fundamentalism develops even faster with misery.
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Women are the only 'oppressed' group that is able to buy most of the $10 billion worth of cosmetics each year; the only oppressed group that spends more on high fashion, brand-name clothing than its oppressors; the only oppressed group that watches more TV.
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When man is not properly trained, he is the most savage animal on the face of the globe.
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What's great about documentary genre, it seems to me, is that it can be experimental filmmaking. You have a license to do a lot of diverse things under the umbrella of "documentary."
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Individual acts have made Europe a civilized place and are key to its development. We must not forget it.
