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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I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.
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I'm living the dream right now.
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I used to think that the causes of war were predominantly economic. I came to think that they were more psychological. I am now coming to think that they are decisively "personal," arising from the defects and ambitions of those who have the power to influence the currents of nations.
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I sell ideas. Actually, if you think about it, everything is really no more than idea. The past is nothing more than a memory, which is one kind of idea. The future is still a hope, another kind of idea. The present is fleeting and becomes a memory before you can put your hands on it. All ideas. I sell ideas.
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Architecture is art. I don't think you should say that too much, but it is art. I mean, architecture is many, many things. Architecture is science, is technology, is geography, is typography, is anthropology, is sociology, is art, is history. You know all this comes together. Architecture is a kind of bouillabaisse, an incredible bouillabaisse. And, by the way, architecture is also a very polluted art in the sense that it's polluted by life, and by the complexity of things.
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I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years.
