Orhan Pamuk Quotes
Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.
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So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.
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If you're in a film that you're proud of and you care about, then you're always happy to talk about it.
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It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
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Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.
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I ain't just collab-ing with anybody. Because I don't care about making friends. I got enough friends.
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The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.
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Before you begin designing or buying anything, you need to get real and ask yourself: What do you really want to use this room for? What do you want to do in this room but can't now?
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Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.
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Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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Being serious just makes me a little bit embarrassed.
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Originally, when I wrote the song 'The Sensual World' I had used text from the end of 'Ulysses.' When I asked for permission to use the text, I was refused, which was disappointing.
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I believe in the institution of marriage; Other than cinema, it's the only way to be immortalised!
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Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
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I don't keep my secrets or my knowledge to myself.
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If you are normal, I intend to be a freak for the rest of my life.
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He cold, he dope, he might sell coke He always in the air but he never fly coach
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Getting to work with Edie Falco and watching her be a quiet presence - but a very powerful presence - and so brilliant and free? That was the first person I saw where I was like, 'I want to emulate that.'
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Musicals have long given voice to outsiders and speak of experiences in our culture and environment.
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If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
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Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.
