Roland Joffe Quotes
If the movie's well made and it's about things that count, people will ultimately see the depth in it.
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
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All I can start with is what moves me and feels like a great challenge as an actor and I think is saying something unusual or irreverent or human - honest in some way.
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
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Ohio has long been an embarrassment to charter-school supporters nationwide, with its trail of scandal and graft and abysmal student performance.
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play.
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Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
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I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.
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I find that the time that goes by is actually your best friend when you are making a record. The passing of time gives you perspective on what you recorded and what you wrote. If something sounds good to you 12 months after you recorded it then chances are pretty good that there's something valuable about the part or the song.
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The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.
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Oh my gosh, if I could be on '30 Rock', my life would be made. That is my favorite show. My absolute favorite show.
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We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
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People have a right to violence, to rebel, to fight back.
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Sometimes the media twists your words, and they say things to get a headline, and it's not necessarily what came out of your mouth, and they take things out of context 90 percent of the time. But I guess - any publicity is good publicity, I guess.
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I saw myself as a teacher's pet but with a little of Ed Haskell mixed in. I was the teacher's pet, but that didn't mean that I was trying to pull one over.
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If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.
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To map the Governor General's Award is to map both the past and the future of Canadian literature, and to be nominated for my first book is wonderful.
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Instead of a government with steel in its backbone, we've got one with Steel in its pocket.
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I've often wished when I started a book I knew what was going to happen. I talked to writers who write 80-page outlines, and I'm just in awe of that.
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I started writing in the '90s, so I was free to just have an eccentric career and not conform to some idea of what a black writer has to do. I didn't have the burden of representation.
Colson Whitehead -
My pet peeve is when people criticize things when they're just trying to have a conversation.
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If the movie's well made and it's about things that count, people will ultimately see the depth in it.
