Abderrahmane Sissako Quotes
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Ultimately, I'm not the most prolific person, but I've been doing this for a long time, and I keep on putting out music. The only thing that drives music is the people who are making it.
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I think people are able to relate to my appearance. They think of me as the girl next door.
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I've always been fascinated by how the past impacts the present. For the first half of my career as a novelist, I wrote psychological suspense mysteries. I wanted to be a therapist but was told that while I was a fine diagnostician, I would be a terrible therapist because I wanted to solve everyone's problems.
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You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them.
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I'm not the type to lay out on the beach, but I do love to work out outside, and that can really take a toll on your skin!
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I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
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Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!
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Not everyone is lucky enough to be given space and trust.
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I have not given much credence to reviews of my films. Sometimes they're wrong, but it didn't matter to me.
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When I meet people after stand-up shows, they'll bring their cars.
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It's haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction.
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If you look at things like Google Now also. Maybe you want to just have a question answered for you before you ask it.
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Qui stultis videri eruditi volunt stulti eruditis videntur.
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Nequeunt oculis rerum primordia cerni.
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In countries where associations are free, secret societies are unknown. In America there are factions, but no conspiracies.
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When I arrived, a hundred women were there auditioning... I raised my voice three registers, curled up in a chair, licked my hand and did ‘meow’s ,the director said, 'I didn’t tell her to do any of that stuff' – but the next day I got the part. Caesar Romero, Burgess Meredith, I was so lucky to work with all of them.
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I write a number of screenplays, and I've never really come up with a part for a movie star.
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Sometimes I do pinch myself about the life I've had.
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In the end, each life is no more than the sum of contingent facts, a chronicle of chance intersections, of flukes, of random events that divulge nothing but their own lack of purpose.
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I have gas mask in my office because I took Chem/bio warfare training class so I can report in case of an attack. It’s on a copy of my head made by Madame Tussauds
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What is astonishing about the social history of the Vietnam war is not how many people avoided it, but how many could not and did not.
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The role of the artist is to be the witness of life, timbuktu.
