Sonita Alizadeh Quotes
It was too hard to understand marrying someone I didn't know. When you don't like someone, if he touches you, it's harder than anything.
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I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers.
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You begin to realize that the genius of our country is the constant push to be more inclusive and find new ways of engaging everyone.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.
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My mum made me feel if I wanted to become prime minister, I could do it.
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The question for France and all countries is, 'Do you favour foreign Internet operators that do not pay, or do you favour national operators who pay?'
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Without faith, I don't think I'd be here.
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All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That's the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world.
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Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.
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I have some of the old videos of my performances on it.
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The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.
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Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.
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Ironically, the original Detroit Stock Exchange once sat less than a thousand feet from StockX headquarters here in downtown Detroit. It is only fitting that we are going to build the next iteration of the world's most efficient market invention almost in the same spot.
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I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.
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Trust your gut. You know yourself, so don't let somebody else tell you who you are.
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I would rather be lying in a bed than changing one.
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When I make a film - I direct my own film, I write my own script - that's what I want to hear from the audience. 'Oh, thank you, Jackie!'
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It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our past - or schools that will be the lifeblood of our future. But since that is our choice, let us resolve to choose wisely.
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Jon Krakauer had documented it very accurately and very well but this kid made a real impression on people, and likewise they on him. To talk to them was very moving in many cases because they talk about him like they saw him yesterday. In most cases they knew this kid for a couple of weeks in their whole life and he just lasted with them.
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After a while most people with PTSD don’t spend a great deal of time or effort on dealing with the past—their problem is simply making it through the day. Even traumatized patients who are making real contributions in teaching, business, medicine, or the arts and who are successfully raising their children expend a lot more energy on the everyday tasks of living than do ordinary mortals.
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Once you get into a part, and someone sees you, you get asked to do it again.
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To love someone is to identify with them.
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It was too hard to understand marrying someone I didn't know. When you don't like someone, if he touches you, it's harder than anything.
