M. Night Shyamalan Quotes
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It is essential to link enterprises on the basis of objective laws of a socialist economy and legal system.
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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Sometimes I feel like I have a dozen different people inside of me. I've always been that way, and I've always written stuff down.
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I don't like the idea of spirituality done the way it's done. The only way I could understand it was through creativity, not by going to an Ashram, or finding a guru or joining a temple. I made work out of it.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
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One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.
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Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.
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I think in the past I think I probably was a little too diverse, probably went from one spectrum to the complete opposite and confusing people.
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The good parts about being a public company are increased discipline, increased execution and increased transparency to make sure that you are really building a company for a hundred years.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
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The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.
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I'm a creative person, so I have to stay busy.
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Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.
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I never had any technical training. I never considered that, one day, I'm going to be Beyonce like a lot of girls aspire to be. It just kind of happened.
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Suffering makes a people greater, and we have suffered much. We had a message to give the world, but we were overwhelmed, and the message was cut off in the middle. In time there will be millions of us - becoming stronger and stronger - and we will complete the message.
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I don't like all of the contemporary country. I like some of it, but I'm mostly into the traditional style.
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As Christians we are here to affirm the supreme value of direct sharing, of immediate encounter -not machine to machine, but person to person, face to face.
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I have a naive outlook on life. That's who I am.
