Nasreddin Quotes
"The moon is more useful than the sun." "Why?" he was asked. "Because at night we need the light more."
Quotes to Explore
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I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline.
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May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
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I believe in content, and I go accordingly.
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'Friends' played in this territory of being funny, and then also just grabbing your heart. And not afraid of that. It was a comedic soap opera. Not being afraid to have an audience feel something, laugh and cry, was quite extraordinary and quite wonderful.
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There's lots of Tolkien that must be confusing to people.
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The job of the screenplay is to identify and extract the essence of the story from the novel and reconfigure it for the screen, maintaining its essence in a different vehicle.
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Nothing embitters my old age like the circulation of absurd stories that I retire as civilization advances, that I shun the white men and seek the Indians, and that now even when old, I seek to retire beyond the second Alleganies.
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There is a favourite in every family; and, generally speaking, that favourite is the most troublesome member in it.
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Infancy, n. The period of our lives when, according to Wordsworth, 'Heaven lies about us.' The world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
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Conservative: One who admires radicals a century after they're dead.
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A film is a chain of very difficult decisions, and I think one of them is to choose an accurate cast.
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I'm never really happy with anything I do.
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I think respectful conflict is intrinsic to the spirit of literature. It reminds us that literary history is living and evolving and thrives on us being active participants.
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When I was 16, I really decided that music was something I wanted to do.
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Getting to wear beautiful fashion is the most fun part of the job that has nothing to do with the job.
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The Democrats have prevailed because, at heart, we have embodied a great idea, which is that an elected government can be the instrument of the common purpose of a free people; that government can embrace great causes and do great things.
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As a kid, I had to be funny.
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With the exception of 'Descent,' that was a very conscious thing to make an action or horror movie that was an all-female cast because I hadn't seen anything like that before.
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Philosophy, is the talk on a cereal box. Religion, is a smile on a dog.
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I am very happy with my life, but seven or eight months a year, I am away from home. I want to go home - that's the truth.
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Don’t bring the ocean if I feel thirsty, nor heaven if I ask for a light; but bring a hint, some dew, a particle, as birds carry only drops away from water, and the wind a grain of salt.
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PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there's a word to lift your hat to... to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that's the genius behind poetry.
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I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.
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"The moon is more useful than the sun." "Why?" he was asked. "Because at night we need the light more."
