Sayed Kashua Quotes
I very much hope that when my wife reads my writings so she reads it as if she is a character and not the real one. Sometimes she takes it too personally.
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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
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As an actor there's a lot of scrutiny and, even when you've had success, it becomes about sustaining that success. A friend of mine described it as a peakless mountain. Even for De Niro there's Pacino and for Pacino there's De Niro.
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There are times I think it might be nice to have deep-pocketed limited partners to provide me with some cushion. But I enjoy having no responsibilities except to myself, financially.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Everything in life has a price on it - there ain't a damn thing free in America, and football has got a price on it.
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No hero is mortal till he dies.
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I don't believe in God.
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I'm not an ardent feminist - well, maybe I am an ardent feminist. I just roll my eyes at the way women are constantly used and how sensitive men are about photographs of themselves.
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'Great Expectations' has become one of my favorite books.
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As a member of the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, I am a firm believer in the American space program.
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I prefer recording drums in the analog format, but that does not mean I would only do it that way.
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Any of these Vietnam vets that have been there and know the deal, they don't feel that any Hollywood endeavor about the Vietnam era has ever gotten it right yet.
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I like the idea of having a superordinary life.
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In China, I had my body lit on fire. And in Russia, I took a bath in reindeer blood, which apparently had some kind of youth-enhancing elements.
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Before, boxing was something that I did. Now, boxing is who I am.
Mandy Bujold -
My goal is definitely a gold medal still in Rio.
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The dieting wars have got to stop.
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I asked each one of them to make out with me and their reactions varied from excitable to horrified.
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I've read probably 25 or 30 books by Balzac, all of Tolstoy - the novels and letters - and all of Dickens. I learned my craft from these guys.
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Do you want an absolute prediction? Then you want only today, and you reject tomorrow. You are the ultimate conservative. You are trying to hold back movement in an infinitely changing universe. The verb to be does make idiots of us all.
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We are not saving lives. We are selling dreams.
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Wilder would say, 'Ninety minutes for this picture is all my bum can take in a seat',
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The story line was done in a way that's organic and was doled out very slowly in little bites. We think that's authentic for this character, that her feelings are very deeply buried or she never felt them.
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I very much hope that when my wife reads my writings so she reads it as if she is a character and not the real one. Sometimes she takes it too personally.
