Roland Joffe Quotes
Indian culture certainly gives the Indian mind, including the mind of the Indian scientist, the ability to think out of the box.
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My desire to experiment comes from my attention-deficit approach to cosmetics. I just get really bored, really easily.
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There are a lot of female directors in documentary, very talented. But it's always lower budget.
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Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.
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We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.
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The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
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I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.
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I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine.
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I've been watching 'Californication' since the pilot aired and had always thought that it would be so much fun to guest star on.
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You could time a suburban story by your watch: it lasts as long as it takes a small furry animal that's lonely to find friends, or a small furry animal that's lost to find its parents; it lasts as long as a quick avowal of love; it lasts precisely as long as the average parent is disposed on a Tuesday night to spend reading aloud to children.
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A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
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I was brought up by great parents and great grandparents who told me, 'Never, ever think that you're better than anyone else or that what you do is so important that the world won't miss you once you're gone,' and I kind of translate that into the stardom thing.
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'I will ask them all, I will ask them all their dreams,I will hold my light above them and seek their faces.I will hear them whisper, invisible in their veins . . .'The eternal asker of answers becomes as the darkness,Or as a wind blown over a myriad forest,Or as the numberless voices of long-drawn rains.
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The right hon. Gentleman is afraid of an election is he? Oh, if I were going to cut and run I'd have gone after the Falklands. Afraid? Frightened? Frit? Couldn't take it? Couldn't stand it? Right now inflation is lower than it has been for thirteen years, a record the right hon. Gentleman couldn't begin to touch!
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I know exactly what I will do. I will go and work with the Congress of South African Students.
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Acting for kids is like playing house, you know? But growing up in Hollywood, it just made it seem possible.
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I've been involved in and out of the U.N. for many years - in fact my first internship was in 1971, so it goes back a couple of years!
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There should be a democracy of voices in literature. There are people who live with a kind of striving and with a certain kind of tenderness - it's not an unusual thing - and maybe that's not written about enough.
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I couldn't be accepted into tennis school because I was too young. I had to wait a year until I was four before they'd accept me.
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The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom.
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Guys like the Monarch are not unique, and there are guys like him all over the world torturing dumb scientists.
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We're all a mishmash of extremes. I know that I have demons. I don't know if I want to get rid of them altogether, but I would like to experience them in a different way. Maybe go face to face with them. I've never really had the time to go to therapy. Well, here and there. But not enough to help me.
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Knowing the plumbing of the universe, intricate and awe-inspiring though that plumbing might be, is a far cry from discovering its purpose.
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Indian culture certainly gives the Indian mind, including the mind of the Indian scientist, the ability to think out of the box.
