Abdellatif Kechiche Quotes
I have many projects in various states of development. Some are on paper and some are in my head. But as I go on, I feel the need to be guided in my choices.
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I miss my friends in public school, but it's kind of a part of something that you have to give up. I'd rather perform than go to public school.
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Dancing is the last sport with no sponsor.
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When I walked in to read with Edie Falco, it was nice, because I auditioned in New York, and it was very quick. You walk in, there's Edie, the producers, the director, and a camera. I read three scenes, and it was done.
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Despite the disreputable company it keeps, bismuth is harmless. In fact, it's medicinal: Doctors prescribe it to soothe ulcers, and it's the 'bis' in hot-pink Pepto-Bismol. Overall, it seems like the most out-of-place element on the periodic table, a gentleman among scoundrels.
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The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
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Elaine Equi has been publishing her observant, often playful poetry for some 30 years, extending and deepening the range of her intrinsically wry voice.
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I love songs that people can dance to and enjoy at the same time.
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To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
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We the people have the strength to bring our country from our weak-kneed stumbling gait in the last ranks of reason to the leadership of the great march to environmental victory.
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I love 70's music.
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I have a fierce temper. I've mastered it over the years, but when I'm angry, no one can force me to do anything I don't want to.
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I like directors who have worked as actors. They know the experience.
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It was an honour for me to have been able to work with Mr. Mandela in the process that led to the adoption of the interim constitution and our first democratic elections in April 1994.
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I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're going to tell them a whole lot more.
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One of the inspirations for my becoming a writer was the baseball board game Strat-O-Matic.
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That was my challenge then, how to make scratching still fun for someone who didn't necessarily come to hear that. It was fun to develop that technique. And now in dance music - I'm still a hip-hop guy at heart, but I love dance music.
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Being true to yourself means living in truth with each person in your life. It means refusing to say or do something that you don't believe is right. Living in truth with other people means that you refuse to stay in any situation where you are unhappy with the behavior of another person. You refuse to tolerate it. You refuse to compromise.
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I want a schedule-keeping, waking-up-early, wallet-carrying, picture-hanging man. I don't care if he takes prescription drugs for cholesterol or hair loss.
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Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.
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Some things are very low profile, but if they excite me creatively, I accept them. Sometimes there are high-profile projects, and you have to do it. We all have human limitations. It is a painful decision to turn things down. Even accepting 'Slumdog Millionaire' was a decision that I had to sacrifice another project.
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I’m sure your prick is as massive as your head is thick.
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Failure to critique US empire allows feminist projects to be used and mobilized as handmaidens in the imperial project.
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I have many projects in various states of development. Some are on paper and some are in my head. But as I go on, I feel the need to be guided in my choices.
