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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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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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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I'm believing that miracles and blessings still exist.
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When I left I got an award for being the latest person in the history of the school. If you got three late marks for being over fifteen minutes late you’d get an after school detention. I got something like 257 marks. And I only lived about ten minutes away.
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Sometimes it occurs to me that the job of a serious cultural critic mostly consists in telling the generality of people that their opinions - on films, on books, on all manner of widgets, gadgets and even the latest electronic fidgets - simply aren't up to scratch.
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I want to go up to the closest white person and say: 'You can't understand this, it's a black thing' and then slap him, just for my mental health.
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Someone's career that I admire would have to be Justin Timberlake's because he started off on Disney and he made this huge film career and huge solo music career. I really respect him as an artist.
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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?'
