Mako Quotes
I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured into theater, and that's how I became interested in theater. My first play was something called 'A Banquet for the Moon.' It was a weird play.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
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By the time I was 29 I'd spent eight years with someone else's group of friends. I had no idea what it was like to be a woman with mates of her own to socialize with.
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No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
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I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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I'd like to explore the more abstract side of people's minds, as opposed to the usual sitcom stuff. I don't want to do the typical sitcom-type humor. I'd want to do stuff like go bowling with pineapples.
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I work out at home. I don't have a gym, but I use light weights. I do calisthenics, which is basically using your own body weight, like you do in yoga, to strengthen your core. I also do a bit of cardio.
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In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran.
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I have never had a man give me money. I've always been the provider. I have always been the one who went out and earned, and I've never felt unequal in that way.
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I think the perfection of love is that it's not perfect.
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When you look at the lyrics of 'Sometimes When We Touch,' it's really very much an adolescent song.
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I hated my big hair. I always wore it straight.
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Polo is a great thing to do with your kids and your family - it is a great day out. And to me, horses are amazing creatures that give you this cable to Earth and put you in contact with nature.
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The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.
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I'm a writer, not a genre.
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Coaching the Bruins is like going bear hunting with a butter knife.
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Friends say, 'Shall we go out to dinner at 8?' I say, 'I can't, I'm a 10 A.M.-till-6:30 P.M. kind of guy.' I keep that very regular, no matter what.
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I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people.
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Here's the thing: the unit of reverence in Europe is the family, which is why a child born today of unmarried parents in Sweden has a better chance of growing up in a house with both of his parents than a child born to a married couple in America. Here we revere the couple, there they revere the family.
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Going home to Australia, it's good to get home, but it's kind of bad too because you get used to that way of life again and you have to come back to America.
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The only time I mind autographs is when I'm out with my family. You're trying to enjoy kids and grandkids and here comes a swarm, and there go your wife and kids. That happens to every celebrity. It's the price you pay.
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I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured into theater, and that's how I became interested in theater. My first play was something called 'A Banquet for the Moon.' It was a weird play.
