Roland Joffe Quotes
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People assume a lot of things about gymnasts - that the girls work too hard, it's way too much for them, they are too young to work so hard.
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People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.
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If one has curiosity, then one stands the chance of attain a high level of scientific inquiry.
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The thing about being an actor is that you're acting. It's not that big of a deal of to play someone different from yourself.
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Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death.
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If I don't create, I don't exist.
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I was only 23 and just out of college when I filmed 'Casualty' and so nervous, but it was brilliant fun. I was really lucky, and it really helped my career.
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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.
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It's nice to get to know people who are the same age as you that do the same things because it's like a different level of understanding.
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I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.
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Everybody is struggling for the good things of the world, and all the arguments to prove that they are not desirable are worse than wasted.
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I'd like to win an Oscar.
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I like to be who I am.
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Without community events like NewFest, I don't think we'd have a queer cinema in America.
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Radio is more powerful the closer we mimic the way we actually speak to each other. That's why Howard Stern is such a great radio talent. People on his show are actually speaking to each other. You might not like what they're saying, but they're real conversations.
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Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
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I'm so stupid because I refuse to think that I'm getting older. I get up in the morning, and it's like, 'La, la, la, I'm so pretty.' I still mingle with a lot with young people. I even go to college campuses to talk to them because I know how they think. They don't think I'm boring, either. They think I'm cool, but I want them to think I'm hot!
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Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.
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I wanted to make an album that was painfully honest, like (Bruce) Springsteen's 'Tunnel of Love.'
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Passion now begins to wake and whom we desire, we will take then we'll cut them down to the quick love itself the cruelest trick. Moved we are by loves sweet song though it plays not for long we can blow on embers bright till passion outtakes the light.
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I've never wanted to do something where I'd berate the audience.
