Noah Baumbach Quotes
That's the nice thing about collaborating with someone: Your work becomes a conversation.
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Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.
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The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.
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I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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Pakistan is not a rogue state, but it harbours and covertly supports rogue elements. While war is not the answer, hard or coercive diplomacy could be.
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Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
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It is a sad but undeniable reality that people have died in the line of duty since the earliest days of the United Nations. The first was Ole Bakke, a Norwegian member of the United Nations guard detachment, shot and killed in Palestine in 1948. The toll since then has included colleagues at all levels.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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It's a complicated issue, and you can't boil it down in a tweet... two sentences cannot sum up the whole gun debate... The minute you try to talk about it honestly and openly, you get raked over the coals.
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I think with every part you do, you become a better actor. I've learned from my experiences on that.
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Just being famous feels cheap to me.
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It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn.
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I just love to see people having a good time.
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That's what we're striving for, making us a contender in every race.
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Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony.
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I have been in love with the Palestinian people for many years...
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Now we have so many more social outlets, so many ways to be stalked and bullied. If social media is too much for you to handle, then don't have a Twitter or Facebook account. Just be yourself. Be who you want to be.
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I think the true test of a pop song, for me, and I've talked to a lot of other writers about this, is you take your demo, you pop it in your car and you drive down Sunset Blvd. to Santa Monica, and that's the Hollywood car test.
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You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.
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Yes. Otherwise I could have done a lot of Hollywood movies. After Crouching Tiger I got a lot of offers, but I turned them down because they were all victim roles - poor girls sold to America to be a wife or whatever. I know I have the ability to go deeper, to take on more original roles than that.
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I've worked very hard in this book to keep the lines of communication open. I don't want to turn someone away from this information for partisan political reasons.
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I have a simple mantra: eat right and work out; you'll never have a weight issue. I never starve or binge.
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As an actress, to get to work on a project where the main focus is the female voice is rare!
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That's the nice thing about collaborating with someone: Your work becomes a conversation.
