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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In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one's hopes in a pile of broken crockery.
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The third rule of life is this: Everything you buy today is smaller, more expensive, and not as good as it was yesterday.
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Listen to other people tell their story, but don't believe them. You know that it's just a story that is only true for them, but listen because the communication can be wonderful.
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Obviously it happens very fast on the field during the game; if anything, it's more of a feel. You feel when the pocket is collapsing around you. You feel when someone is close to you. It is a split-second decision.
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The role of the artist is to be the witness of life, timbuktu.
