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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Surely in a matter of this kind we should endeavor to do something, that we may say that we have not lived in vain, that we may leave some impress of ourselves on the sands of time.
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Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.
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So I have this ability, if I may say so, to spot talent.
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Blessed are the pure in heart; how will people believe that, unless we ourselves are worshipping the living God until our own hearts are set on fire and scorched through with his purity?
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"The moon is more useful than the sun." "Why?" he was asked. "Because at night we need the light more."
