Noah Emmerich Quotes
I did do a war movie, 'Windtalkers.' That was a lot of action. But once you've done one big action/war movie, you don't need to do another one.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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We need to take music out of the ivory tower - both for musicians and for the public. Otherwise, classical music will not survive the 21st century.
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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
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As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry.
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In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.
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She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
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There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.
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I think it is important for children to read different things to find out about their emotions and other people's emotions. It is an enormous source of education and culture.
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In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.
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If most women are looking for security, I think men look for adventure.
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I think art is more glorious than life but not more real.
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Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
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It's funny, as a little kid, you look up to those guys who you play as in 'Madden,' and now to see myself in the game, it's an honor.
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There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.
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One can make a case that says that since 85% of children being brought up in single family homes are being brought up by women that about 85% of elementary school teachers should be males to balance out the feminization that the boys and girls receive.
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In L.A., you tend to see a lot of people do very bizarre things. I love it.
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This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.
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He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage.
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I had a really typical, suburban, middle-class upbringing. The only thing out of the ordinary was being one of the few Chinese families in town.
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I grew up in Des Moines. My dad had a house full of books, things like P.G. Wodehouse books and 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte.
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It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.
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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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One thing that's great about being a character actor is that a movie doesn't rest on your shoulders. If it bombs, it won't hurt my career.
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I did do a war movie, 'Windtalkers.' That was a lot of action. But once you've done one big action/war movie, you don't need to do another one.
