Roland Joffe Quotes
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We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed.
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Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
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Find a type of exercise that you love - whether it's dance, soccer, softball, anything - just as long as it keeps you active. If you love it, you'll dedicate yourself to it and stay involved.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.
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I introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit President Obama's amnesty. The House of Representatives stood up and led. It took the legislation I introduced and it passed it. But the Senate Democrats stood as one uniform block and said, 'No, we will do nothing to stop amnesty.'
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I want to go see Somalia because I've never been there, and I feel like I'm missing out. I want to learn that heritage; I want to learn about my culture.
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People like to see showdowns.
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This obligation to move can be a burden to a player without strategic vision.
Garry Kasparov -
I was a drummer and I played the guitar.
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Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative.
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Liz Benedict, a teacher of mine at Iowa, is the person who introduced me to James Salter's work.
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There wasn't much around. After the shows, we would go to an Italian restaurant that a friend of ours owned and so I didn't get a chance to see much. Actually, that holds true of most places I've been.
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Love begets love; and thus the love of Christ displayed upon the cross woos and wins the sinner and binds him repenting to the cross, believing and adoring the matchless depths of a Saviour's love.
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Learning how to be a good parent was easy in the end because I'd basically had the What Not To Do manual.
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People call me an instinctive actor. I used to consider that an insult early on, only because I had never studied. Now... I love it.
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Climate change - we can debate that until the cows come home, for lack of a better way of stating that. The bottom line is, I do not believe that man is contributing to that factor.
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You can blow out a candle, but you can't blow out a fire.
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No matter which concern, problem or life-issue we may want to work on, risking and beginning to talk about it with a safe person or persons is a way out of the unnecessary burden of remaining silent. And when we tell our story from our hearts, bones and guts, we discover the truth about ourselves. Doing so is healing
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We're just so self-conscious. However much we try not to be, on some level, especially as a woman and an actress, you have so much pressure when it comes your hair and the bags under your eyes and your skin.
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I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'
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I don't think you retire from movies; movies retire you.
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I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years.
