Al Koran Quotes
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Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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When I was starting out and had to cut my teeth and build my resume to get in, I had to basically work for free on a lot of things.
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I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'
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I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.
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People always say 'humbling,' but I actually think it's quite inflating being nominated for an award. It's wonderful; it's a great feeling.
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Well, I'm a writer by nature, and I got a little bit - a little taste of a daily fast-paced writing job, writing career, and I loved it.
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I feel like as you get older, the roles you get change, and you don't always want to do the same tone over and over again.
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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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I have a brain and a uterus and I use both.
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It wasn't until after I was reelected in 1982 that I thought of myself as a long-term member of Congress.
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It is a grievous sin in the sight of God for any man to presume to baptize, unless God has authorized him by new revelation to baptize in his name.
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If I could have come in for $10m, I would have done that. I've been pretty smart with my money. I'm playing because I want to play this game here - I want the opportunity.
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Just because someone is holding a gun doesn't make an image controversial. It all depends on where you put the gun, who is holding it.
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There is nothing worse than annotated humour.
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I live between Barcelona and Berlin. Staying in Spain over the winter and Berlin for spring and summer is an ideal combination.
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I'm conflicted about the lyric tattoo thing. I feel like that's a lifetime decision, and I always feel like, 'I hope you don't regret this a couple years from now when you get tired of that song.'
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Getting an agent is hard, and I also think people rush to get an agent too soon.
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My father was in Ataturk's closest group. They lived together during the War of Liberation in Turkey.
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Proust's 'In Search of Lost Time,' especially 'Time Regained,' made me think differently about what the novel is and can do. Then I forgot about it, then reread it and remembered again.
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I thought Obama was in a position to do some things. I thought 2008 was a turning point in history, with him and the Wall Street crash happening at the same time, but you just learn that those entrenched powers were really entrenched; those decayed institutions were really decayed.
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I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.
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You can always make time to do the thing you want to do, if you want it enough.
