Yair Lapid Quotes
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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
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I wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience.
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With this film, 'Need For Speed,' with this, we had a blank canvas to work with. What we had to do was have fast cars, and that's it.
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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
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I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.
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I can always go back to education.
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I think beautiful independent films are made, and I think they're as close to what theater can be because they're not loaded with all of the extra stuff. It's human, and it's more organic, but theater is very unique... It's a different connection altogether.
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The future ain't what it used to be.
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Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.
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Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.
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I love hard punch lines, and I like anything that has a strong point of view.
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There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.
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My favourite place to eat is my grandma's kitchen. She makes a mean crab cake.
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I wish black people had a flag they could put into the ground, like when the troops stormed Iwo Jima.
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One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.
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Everyone has a temper. A temper is an emotion.
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It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
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There must be four or five hundred choirs here in London alone. In a way, there's nowhere else on Earth I could go and get this level and passion for singing in the one place.
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I always play what I call The Girl. The nice straight character. Sincere. Usually the victim. I'm put upon. I suffer.
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Much of life becomes background, but it is the province of art to throw buckets of light into the shadows and make life new again.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
