Rumi Quotes
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
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On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.
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Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially.
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.
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I never really learned photography.
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Think of the difference between a team sport and one that you do by yourself. Like it or not, if you're by yourself, you're going to be faced with a lot more of your own doubts and your own drawbacks and your own whatever.
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I suppose the place where I live is fairly remote, it would seem remote to some people.
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Art is going to make a bigger comeback than ever. That's the upside to things getting challenging.
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Relying on someone else to be successful only ties you down and limits you.
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Religions cannot change you. If you are angry, you will become an angry Muslim or Hindu. If you are righteous, you will become a righteous Christian or Jew.
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Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.
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There's always merit to having a debate.
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I don't think our music has much to do with math rock.
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I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for Lassie.
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I didn't get a ton of interest from colleges in baseball and football, but I was outstanding in track and had the sense that this would be my meal ticket... Track was a sport where I saw immediate improvement, and I had a lot of good support behind me... and the coaches had a lot of experience and pushed me in that direction for sure.
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I like to have something to base a role on.
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As a woman, as a Jew, as a lesbian, as a labor leader in a time of great anti-union animus, I know that other people project their biases on me. But it is nothing like the experience of our African-American brothers and sisters, especially black and brown men and boys.
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I think it is valuable and should be valued by its consumers. Charging for content forces discipline on journalists: they must produce things that people actually value.
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My mom was onstage when she was pregnant with me.
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When I was 5 years old I would lie in bed, look at the radio, and I wanted to be on the radio. I don't know why.
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The reason why books endure is because there are enough people who like them. It's the only reason why books last.
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For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
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Have you ever gotten breathless before from a beautiful face, for i see you there, my dear.
