Albert Serra Quotes
Sometimes you go to a film and well, you are not very concentrated. In reading, you have to concentrate, to spend the time it requires in order to feel the experience of the work. You have to put all of yourself there to experience something new and to feel and perceive an atmosphere that is unprecedented.
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No matter how good you are, how brave you are or anything, it comes down to that car so many times. Not every time, but so many times.
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I was unbelievably lucky.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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Here's how adaptation works - almost everything in the movie is in the book in some form. But it's as though the deck has been completely reshuffled and some of the cards have been assigned different values, some of the fours have been made into jacks, and some of the jacks have been made into twos.
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I would think about the outcome. Visualize sometimes. Because it never comes out the way you want it to. Fight the way I know how to fight. Whatever comes up, comes up.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.
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I dream about doing a film about once a week.
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The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.
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As far being the face of boxing, I don't like to name myself that. I leave that up to the media and the fans.
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I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
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Global actions require local and national participation. International cooperation and action requires community perspectives and legitimacy if it is to be effective.
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I do not speak through my characters; it's not a ventriloquist act.
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I guess what I'm trying to say is that writing is mysterious; you don't ever truly know where it is coming from, so don't edit yourself line by line. Don't get in your own way. Whatever is truly there at the core, that is your voice.
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There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.
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What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?
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One of the things that Ang brings to all of his projects is his deep sense of being a double exile, an outsider's outsider.
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I have trained my eye over and over ever since I was a kid. I was a bird watcher when I was a little boy. My grandmother gave me a bird book, and I got to like their colors.
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We are a people whom Allah gave might and glory to through Islam, so we will never seek glory through anything else.
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I did my famous cabbage soup diet, so I was able to do it.
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It doesn't matter where you came from, it doesn't matter how poor you are, it doesn't matter where your family was. It all doesn't matter. You can achieve anything if you have really clear goals and if you work really hard to learn what you need to learn.
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Sometimes you go to a film and well, you are not very concentrated. In reading, you have to concentrate, to spend the time it requires in order to feel the experience of the work. You have to put all of yourself there to experience something new and to feel and perceive an atmosphere that is unprecedented.
