Hasan M. Elahi Quotes
I'm an artist. And usually when I tell people I'm an artist, they just look at me and say, 'Do you paint?' or 'What kind of medium do you work in?'
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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Vox populi vox dei: the voice of the people is the voice of God. The slogan was useful for those who first attempted to substitute the people for God as the source of political authority. Their attempt was ultimately so successful that God no longer seems to be needed in government.
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The life of an actor is never one to get comfortable.
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You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.
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That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.
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I probably have a higher opinion of my writing than the average person, at least when I'm in a good mood, but I don't really think of my plays as only being relevant to a particular month or year.
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We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?
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A great byproduct of a TV show, movie, or play is when it can act as a catalyst for someone.
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We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
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It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself.
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I went to public school my whole life. It was a performing arts school, so I can't say if it was a typical experience or not, because it's all I know.
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One of the things that a president needs in the face of genocide is resolve.
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My generation were all careerists.
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I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
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Every day, we at the United Nations see the human toll of an absence of regulations or lax controls on the arms trade. We see it in the suffering of civilian populations trapped by armed conflict or pervasive crime. We see it in the killing and wounding of civilians - including children, the most vulnerable of all.
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The coolest gift I've ever gotten from a fan was from the Franklin Mint. It was a knife, and it had a picture of General Wade Hampton, who my oldest son is named after. It's a collector's item and came with a case and a stand and everything.
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Establish who you are, and don't let anybody dress you up or change the way you are, and stay true to yourself.
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I'm believing that miracles and blessings still exist.
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Prism! Where is that baby?
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I've got to work really hard and I know exactly what I've achieved because I know how hard I've worked, and I make sure to work as hard as I absolutely possibly can, because I know that's the only shot I have at being successful.
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I just sort of try to be a good person; try to write music that lifts people and makes me feel good to sing.
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I am an artist who works with Lego.
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During every really creative act, the artist finds himself homeless. To overcome this state he has to call up his last reserves of strength.
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I'm an artist. And usually when I tell people I'm an artist, they just look at me and say, 'Do you paint?' or 'What kind of medium do you work in?'
