Agustin Fernandez Mallo Quotes
The structure of my novels has nothing to do with the narrative mode of cinema. My novels would be very difficult to film without ruining them completely. I think this is the area where writers need to place ourselves: from a position of absolute modernity and contemporaneity, creating a culture of objects which cinema cannot.
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If you say one gets influenced watching a character, I think it's foolish. Cinema reflects society; society rarely reflects cinema.
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We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.
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It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.
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You need to let your hair produce its own oils and be healthy.
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I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.
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My job was to get a fair and open hearing to all ideas.
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I am really easy to scare, and I don't enjoy watching spooky films.
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I think there's a couple of things going on. One is that Trump's relationship with his base is not the traditional relationship of a politician and the people who elected him, and the constituency, which is a relationship of some accountability, right? The idea is that the politicians are working for the people. They're public servants.
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Never put a sock in a toaster.
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In the film industry, you are fictitious, just like the characters you play. It has a lot do with a perception about you, and not necessarily you. You are successful because people like that image of you on screen.
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There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites.
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Every year, I say the Seahawks are going to win the Super Bowl. There's no doubt in my mind every single year. And you have to keep in mind this was well before the Seahawks were good. This was, like, 2-14, drafting-Rick-Mirer Seahawks. I would still be saying they were going to win the Super Bowl.
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You begin to take on the mentality of your coach. If he feels so confident, then I feel confident.
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I say have the night and give people the awards, but why do people want to watch people win awards? What are they getting out of it? I don't quite get it. Because they have awards all the time; there's awards for butchers, the best meat served, but they don't televise it. I don't know why they do it for films or TV programs.
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I would never recommend losing on a bye, so that one definitely stays with you.
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I'm a liberal, but I think there's so much that the private sector can do and does do.
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We have cultural expectations that everyone needs a dining room, yet they're only used three times a year. But if I put a bone handle on the door of an upper-end brick home, I'm making an outlandish statement.
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Controversies are part and parcel of making a big film.
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Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
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The intention makes the crime.
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I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema.
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I've the highest respect and regards for Shankar sir. He has taken Tamil cinema to a new level. I would have loved to work with him, but there are some date hassles.
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The structure of my novels has nothing to do with the narrative mode of cinema. My novels would be very difficult to film without ruining them completely. I think this is the area where writers need to place ourselves: from a position of absolute modernity and contemporaneity, creating a culture of objects which cinema cannot.
