Sendhil Mullainathan Quotes
Policymakers think that if they get the abstractions right, that will drive behavior in the desired direction. But the world happens in real time.
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Our franchises have never been healthier. Our league, in terms of its economic footing, has never been healthier.
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I was fortunate enough to get an author-backed role in Aamir Khan starrer 'Talash.'
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Well, one of my favorite ones to work on - besides just about any scene from 'Deadwood' - was my scene with Brad Pitt in 'Assassination of Jesse James'. That was just a fun day.
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I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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And I'm a pretty positive person - I don't put a lot of energy into worrying, and I'm not a person who lives in a great deal of fear.
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The certainty that our football, the football of Spain, is recognised, that's very important to us - perhaps more important than the successes and the joy that you can create. Football hasn't always been appreciated, and luckily our football is appreciated now, at all levels of society.
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I would have to say that I have to concentrate more when I'm doing comedy. There are so many details that make up any character, but developing a character for a dramatic role seems to come more naturally.
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My mom taught me the power of love. I learned to focus on the long-term big picture from my father. His sense of humor and light-hearted approach always make me smile. My husband is a pivotal anchor in my life. His influence encourages me to be independent and take risks.
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I hear so many writers say - and these are writers that I trust completely - 'I just started hearing a voice', or, 'The characters came to life'. I am filled with loathing for my own characters when I hear that because they do nothing of the sort. Left to their own devices, they do nothing but drink coffee and complain about their lives.
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Leonardo DiCaprio is a rare phenomenon. Whereas for so many celebrities an interest in the environment is a fashionable accessory, for DiCaprio it is a thread that runs through everything he does.
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I love British bands.
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There's an inherent idea that if a Black executive producer and a Black director are going to do a movie based on a Black writer's book that everybody is going to be Black.
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I have to have coffee in the morning.
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It is the transcendent (or 'abstract' or 'self-contained') nature of music that the new so called concretism-Pop Art, eighteen-hour slices-of-reality films, musique concrete-opposes. But instead of bringing art and reality closer together, the new movement merely thins out the distinction.
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I've done Graham Norton's show three times now. He tackles taboos and subject matter that wouldn't make it past the censors in the States.
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Everybody believes that capital punishment is wrong, but when they look at certain cases, they're quick to say, 'Put them to death,' or scream 'capital punishment.'
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The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope.
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To me, being in your prime means playing your best and feeling your best, too.
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I liked journalism and thought it was important, certainly more important than fiction. I'd probably still be doing it if I hadn't been elbowed out.
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My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.
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Policymakers think that if they get the abstractions right, that will drive behavior in the desired direction. But the world happens in real time.
