Paul Greengrass Quotes
Action is only really compelling when it reveals character - character revealed through action, and not action for its own sake.
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During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.
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A two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a region free of Iranian nukes are worthy goals that should be able to withstand public scrutiny in every Middle Eastern capital.
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The work environment on 'Battlestar Galactica' is unbelievable, and it's something that doesn't come along very often.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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Literally, when I go to the vocal coach, I'm like, 'You are teaching me nothing.' You know?
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I was getting a little bored with my hair. It's kind of a symbolic thing, just getting rid of the past, moving forward. It's amazing what a reaction you get when you cut your hair.
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In the real world, immeasurable hurt is caused by terrorists based in Pakistan who attack countries like India.
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A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.
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People like to invent enemies. It spares us the need to address complex worldviews.
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In the past, I used to tell everyone that I have never had a boyfriend, because I was still quite young. However, I cannot say the same thing now.
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As a comic, it's anti-comedy to be known. I think a lot of comedic actors get lost in this world of Hollywood and all this stuff. They lose what brought them there in the first place. I'm very trepidatious about it.
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It's my strong belief that when people love each other and are desirous of creating a committed relationship with each other that they should be allowed to marry, regardless of their sexual orientation.
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A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
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There are people who don't respond to color. That's what painting is. It's color.
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Even the good she found in him was really the goodness she had put in him, the goodness he had put on himself as a disguise in order to get her to marry him.
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Where theory lags behind the facts, we are dealing with miserable degenerating research programmes.
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Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt;It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.
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I have often felt a bitter sorrow at the thought of the German people, which is so estimable in the individual and so wretched in the generality. A comparison of the German people with other peoples arouses a painful feeling, which I try to overcome in every possible way.
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Well, rates would go up whether you deregulate or not, and of course, the rates that are going up right now on the electricity side are still within the regulated framework.
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I love connecting with a character out of the blue, not knowing why.
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'Let us give them a portion of the Evil Forest. They boast about victory over death. Let us give them a real battlefield in which to show their victory.' ... They offered them as much of the Evil Forest as they cared to take. And to their great amazement the missionaries thanked them and burst into song.
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I love... What's gratifying to me is when you make/create a character and a human being, a person who lives entirely and who has their own existence, just merely from the words on a page.
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Unless you choose to take action on what you want, nothing is ever going to come out of it.
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Action is only really compelling when it reveals character - character revealed through action, and not action for its own sake.
