Noureen DeWulf (Noureen Ahmed) Quotes
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.
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There's a big link between trains and film. One of the first filmed objects was a train. The clickety-clack of the projector and the clickety-clack of the train are similar. There is the idea of the voyage - every voyage is a story. I wonder if film would have been invented without the train.
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While it is clear that we need to make some adjustments to protect Social Security for the long term, it is disingenuous to say that the trust fund is facing a crisis.
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I'm not a big fan of doing what my mother wants me to do, like any daughter.
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I depend on good editors and a good director.
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To develop drugs for people, we basically dismantle the system. In the lab, we look at things the size of a cell or two. We dismantle life into very small models.
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I made a very concerted decision to go to drama school in the United States. But I did have the opportunity to go to Britain's Central School of Speech and Drama, and my dad and I had a few tense words about that. He wanted me to go to British drama school.
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I am quite looking forward to working with Shah Rukh Khan.
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I'm a very proud actor.
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I'm famous for splurging at fast-food places. I'm currently obsessed with Taco Bell's bean and cheese burritos with extra green sauce and extra cheese. Gluttony!
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We must broaden the definition of who our neighbors are, and extend the boundaries of our interest and empathy.
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My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me.
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Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.
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Last week, I went to Philadelphia, but it was closed.
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There's never been a doctor who served many patients who, despite their best efforts, did not lose some of them to death. But they understood that was part of life itself.
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I love music in general. It's like girls and their clothes and shoes; when you love shoes, you love shoes. So, for me, I think it's a really dangerous thing to say I'm going to write the best dance song in the world.
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I was in the U.S. about 15 years. Especially in New York. And then I came back to Japan.
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If you're competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.
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My mother was an extraordinary theater actor in Canada, and when I would finish school, I would go to the theater. I would do my homework, we would have dinner there, she would do her play, and then me and my sister would go home. So I grew up in it that way.
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I was approached to do something for seven years, and it was a quality project. I did seriously think about it, but I didn't want to be away for six months of the year. I've never done the L.A. thing where you go and have loads of meetings; I can't say to my wife, 'I'm going to wait by a pool for six months.'
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In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.
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I think it's great when dramatic actors do lighter, funny roles.
