Roland Joffe Quotes
The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a much bigger picture. It's like conducting an orchestra.
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People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.
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I actually got a play from auditioning for something in 'Back Stage' magazine.
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I wouldn't be face-washing anyone in real life. I'd be skating to the bench real fast to get away.
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Fiction is a particular kind of rhetoric, a way of thinking that I think can be useful in your life. It asks you to image the world through someone else's eyes, and it allows you to try to empathize with situations that you haven't actually experienced.
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I never intended for the Sex Pistols to be immeasurably successful.
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Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture.
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The test of good citizenship is loyalty to country.
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I don't have anything to hide but what happens is the media tend to beat up what I say.
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Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.
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And so in my mind's eye these coastal forms merge and blend in a shifting, kaleidoscopic pattern in which there is no finality, no ultimate and fixed reality - earth becoming fluid as the sea itself.
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You look so polished from your hair down to your toes, but still your finger's gonna pick your nose.
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When the mind grapples with a great and intricate problem, it makes its advances step by step, with but little realization of the gains it has made, until suddenly, with an effect of abrupt illumination, it realizes its victory.
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You need to eat what's local. So that's what I'm trying to do - just be as close to nature as possible.
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Men are born, and then they're formed.
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Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
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Sometimes you just need to give in to the yuckiness of the day, throw your psychic hands up in the air and trust that tomorrow will be an improvement.
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Integrity, or the lack of it, touches almost every facet of our lives-everything we say, every thought and desire.
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It isn't a band. It's bigger than a band. It's a lifestyle.
