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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This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.
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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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As she swam she seemed to be reaching out for the unlimited in which to lose herself.
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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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My sense of personal strength has always come from my family.
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There are very few films that I've ever seen in my life that would be as silent or vacant as something like Jeremiah Johnson, and that to me was unbelievably captivating. You can see the same about [The Outlaw] Josey Wales: there's very little dialogue, and yet it contains such a deep, rich story. I've always thought of the western as American storytelling at its best.
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I think we are able to keep active provided we approach our lives with creativity. I think the mere fact that we keep doing is self-creating.
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My childhood best friend is an anesthesiologist. It's the least amount of human interaction for a doctor. I don't think you can get that burned out on it.
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The way you talk about yourself and your life-your story-has a great deal to do with what shows up in your day-to-day experience. Your thoughts create filters through which you view your life. If you think of yourself as a Victim, you filter all that happens to you through the lens of DDT, and you find plenty of evidence to support that viewpoint. That's why the orientation you adopt is so important: it exerts a powerful influence on your life direction.
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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.
