Roland Joffe Quotes
I try to address my audiences intelligently. The man in the street counts, but sometimes he forgets that he counts.
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I'm an artist; I'm not going to use trigonometry.
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We are not going to turn our backs on people who have been persecuted, turn our backs on people who have been threatened by terror.
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When I grew up, my role model was my grandma because she's just the best.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure.
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The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.
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Once you get into your stride, the camera becomes like another person in the room. It's like being in a very small theatre where there is no getting away with anything because the audience is centimetres away from you.
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Why not celebrate those who want to marry and bring up a family?
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I got a cold feeling toward religion in general. I don't think God would want to separate families.
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My favorite weekend activity is riding bikes to breakfast.
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I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.
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'All-Star Wonder Woman' would get worked on in what is laughably referred to as my 'spare time.' I just ended up with less and less time to devote to it. Eventually, we all realized that it was taking forever, so we just all agreed to hold off on it 'til the time was right to do it properly. Well, I still have a contract; DC never tore it up.
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I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.
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That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into.
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I wouldn't say I'm a phenomenon, just a great athlete.
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I hope I'm better today than I was yesterday. I don't believe in glory days or anything like that, so I think the best is tomorrow or later this afternoon!
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That is our first amendment, freedom of speech. But I also believe that we have an obligation to the youth to be somewhat responsible in what we say on records. But I think that comes with age. I think that comes with artists growing up and becoming assured of who they are as people.
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My humor is my creativity, and my skepticism is a gift.
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In the past, foreign intervention was obviously a major problem. Foreign domination, or if not domination, interference. But that has ended. There is no foreign domination; there is minimal foreign interference. The Cold War has ended. The Soviet Union no longer exists. The United States is showing minimal and diminishing interest in the Muslim world. They now have to confront their own problems. The old excuses are gone. The old justifications are gone and therefore the anger of people is turning increasingly against their own rulers.
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In the world of the present, in our time, we feel that suffering, anguish, the torments of body and soul, are greater than ever before in the history of mankind.
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Sometimes you have to be silent to be heard.
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When actors are talking, they are servants of the dramatist. It is what they can show the audience when they are not talking that reveals the fine actor.
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I didn't want to be known as a gay comic, but as a comic who happens to be gay.
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I try to address my audiences intelligently. The man in the street counts, but sometimes he forgets that he counts.
