Abdellatif Kechiche Quotes
I don't come to work as an actor. There are many directors who can direct without ever having acted and do a great job and connect with their actors and lead them to excellent performances without themselves having had an acting background.
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It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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Our Nation must provide sufficient access to healthcare, adequate benefits, and the supplemental resources our veterans were promised and so dearly need. We owe our heroes no less.
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Bob Rubin was opposed to signing the welfare bill. He's not exactly what I call a flaming liberal.
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At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that.
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There's a really easy way of just kind of wearing make-up but looking like there's nothing on your face... I'm still not very good at it, and I'm learning slowly.
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Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences.
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If I didn't have a girlfriend, I'd have 10 girls at the studio, and they would make me not rap.
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I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.
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The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.
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I admire people who have that integrity, who know how to peacefully move through a situation - and it's reflected in how they deal with things like loss.
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Throughout my career, I was never able to relax; I always had to go on the field with another responsibility. I felt like I was playing, not just for my team, but for my race.
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I'm not a trained singer at all. I've auditioned on occasion for proper musical theatre-type stuff, but I can't read music, and I wasn't particularly good at it.
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Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
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I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take.
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A champion owes everybody something. He can never pay back for all the help he got, for making him an idol.
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If you want to be a lion, you must train with lions.
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One thing that everybody told me about directing was, 'Never compromise'. And the whole job is a compromise. So it's very paradoxical. How do you not compromise when the whole thing is about compromise?
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Hollywood wants its heroes to be virtuous, but it defines virtue in a way that excludes any action that is self-interested. If virtue means putting others ahead of self, then it's clear that most people, let alone most capitalists, aren't very virtuous.
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In the Arctic, things are already getting freaky. Temperatures have warmed three times faster than the global average.
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I don't come to work as an actor. There are many directors who can direct without ever having acted and do a great job and connect with their actors and lead them to excellent performances without themselves having had an acting background.
