Roland Joffe Quotes
Eventually, the tribe developed so much confidence in me that they invited me to be their chieftain.
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My first Comic-Con was when I first met Joss Whedon: He introduced me to that world and I'd never been to a convention before that. He and a bunch of the 'Buffy' and 'Angel' writers were all going down in a big van and he invited me along.
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Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.
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No contact with savage Indian tribes has ever daunted me more than the morning I spent with an old lady swathed in woolies who compared herself to a rotten herring encased in a block of ice.
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There ain't no such thing as black Muslims. That's how they tried to cut off all my brothers in the rest of the world and divide us in America and make other Muslims think that we are not with them.We are all the same. I recognise them and they recognise me. I'm invited to all of their homes all over the world and I'm invited to Muslim countries.
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Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned.
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If I get invited somewhere I can never usually say no. And then I don't leave until I'm asked to.
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We have entered the homes and homelands of virtually every other animal on earth. Yet, we were never invited.
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The eagles ruled the air as the tribes ruled the land.
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Look at native cultures - they've lasted for tens of thousands of years, not doing everything right. We wouldn't want to emulate them in many ways, but their basic philosophies - being a part of nature, a part of a tribe or group without elevating, not what you call dominator philosophies - they lasted for tens of thousands of years. It took us to come and put them asunder.
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Every time I do something new, it makes me a bit stronger. Playing huge shows, being invited to play with Nile Rodgers after the Brits - all are mindblowing and I have a great team around me who are empowering. It makes all the difference.
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When I was ten, I had a weird cinema party where I invited everybody from my street to come. I pretended I was an usher and tried to sell them all popcorn.
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The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host.
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But you know what? When I die, everybody is invited to come take a selfie at my funeral. Except for my enemies. They're not invited to the funeral, period.
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I do think that there is a hunger in the land for a vision of confessional Christianity that is robust, God-centered, tough-minded, able to address today and tomorrow and the next day, and comprehensive.
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People see you onstage and the glamorous side, but they don't see you traveling 600 miles a night, eating truck stop food and spending by yourself staring at walls.
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The one thing that has gotten worse for sports media is access. We hardly get to see, talk to and most of all get to know the players and coaches anymore.
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The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery.
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I love different folks.
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Come not within the measure of my wrath.
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If there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is cheerfulness.
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To go faster you must slow down.
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If you're mostly a writer - if your point of departure is writing something - which for a writer/director is sort of where you start, you're really influenced by the writers you love one way or another.
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Children are born with their own optimism. They have a clarity and a simplicity that we can only wish for.
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Eventually, the tribe developed so much confidence in me that they invited me to be their chieftain.
