Abdellatif Kechiche Quotes
To use an image, making a film is like climbing a mountain or crossing an ocean. Every day has its challenges.
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Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
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River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.
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I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.
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To win a major championship - I think, at the end of the day, that's what a golfer's career is based upon.
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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I did a lot of things as a Muslim that I am sorry for now.
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The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.
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It's not ideal to always be one eye on the Blackberry and two arms around my children. For the sake of mothers out there who don't have the Blackberry but do have the children and are hoping someone will be raising their voice on their behalf, it's a great privilege.
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You have to fight for your health and stay on top of it. Our bodies are meant to be healthy.
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I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mother.
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Tim on the show does a lot of that posturing, of course, and feels sort of threatened by women. But even at that, you do see him cooking, and ultimately he's a good father because he spends a lot of time with the boys.
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I used to think that, by the 21st century, cars would run on electricity rather than gasoline and would have guidance systems so that they actually drove themselves. Specially equipped roadways would transmit instructions to the cars, telling them where to go and how fast. I figured this would be in the lines painted on the roads.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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Only amazing designers think of the truly new.
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I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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The older I get, the less I know. By that I mean the less I am sure of. I view people with strong opinions on the big stuff with distrust. I don't think we should have certain certainties on faith and politics; I think we should be open-minded.
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The fact that anyone would find me sexy is very, very flattering, but ridiculous. I so don't believe it. But I'm flattered. Truth is, I don't lift a finger to look sexy. Ever.
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Music is its own language - if you don't speak it, it's hard to say what you're trying to do.
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Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance.
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I don't do films because they tell a particular kind of story, I do films with stories that touch me.
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You do not have to accept the hand that Fate has dealt you.
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To use an image, making a film is like climbing a mountain or crossing an ocean. Every day has its challenges.
