Albert Serra Quotes

We didn't want to live anymore in the old logic. And I like that. The consequence of that is to create the dream of that, but we all know this dream may be not possible. So here we have the key of the ambiguity of the atmosphere of my films. Is it possible, this dream? Is it as funny as it seems, or is it tragic?

Albert Serra

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• You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • You
  • Never
  • Desperate

• I've moved on to Plan B now, writing novels.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Writing
  • Now
  • Plan

• Necessity makes even the timid brave.

  

  Sallust
  • Brave
  • Necessity
  • Even

• The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Will
  • Take
  • Ideology

• Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Flying
  • Calm
  • Rattle

• Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?

  

  W. D. Richter
  • Why
  • Space
  • Always

• I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.

  

  Natalie Coughlin
  • Up
  • Breakfast
  • Pool

• I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Girl
  • Like
  • Serious

• I am always hearing from Israelis, 'Oh, CNN is anti-Israel,' or 'BBC is against us.' But no, they are reporting facts.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Facts
  • Cnn
  • Israelis

• I don't like the mentality that comes with rich Russian men. Because they have money, they think they can buy a woman - and they do.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Men
  • Money
  • Woman

• Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness in the developing world.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • World
  • Rise
  • Mental Illness

• There's a lot of pressure on Broadway. There's this feeling that the show has to be a commercial success and the producers have to make their money back and Tonys and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Money
  • Success
  • Feeling

• What do you want me to do, rob a bank?

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • Want
  • You
  • Me

• Lets take away the incentives to do 'to' patients and instead create incentives to do 'for' patients, to be 'with' patients. We don't need to do comparative effectiveness trials to see if that works; we can just ask patients.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • See
  • Trials
  • Incentives

• I never lose touch. If you let me tell it, I'll tell you I never got my just due and my respect for being one of the greats in hip-hop, and because of that, the fire never burned out. There's more and more of a need for me to succeed or take the legacy a step further, and that's what it is.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Respect
  • Fire
  • Legacy

• When I started doing standup when I was 17, I was talking about being Indian and specifically ethnic jokes. Straightforward stuff that was fairly ignorant that I knew would get the laugh. It wasn't flipping stereotypes; it was using them.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Doing
  • Laugh
  • Stereotypes

• Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Sea
  • Soldier

• 'And when a strong man is sweet, even Goddesses look down from Mount Olympus.'

  

  Anne Rice
  • Strong
  • Sweet

• I don't just want to upset people and shock people by saying something really outrageous.

  

  Chris Lilley
  • People

• I have a huge fan following in Bellary, and when they met me, they told me about their problems. I have seen mining done without proper safety measures and not taking environmental protection into account.

  

  Pawan Kalyan
  • Done
  • Safety

• Cosmic reveries separate us from project reveries. They situate us in a world and not in a society. The cosmic reverie possesses a sort of stability or tranquility. It helps us escape time. It is a state.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Time
  • World
  • Society

• Oh, I have passed a miserable night, so full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Dream
  • Night
  • Ugly

• I went to sleep with the hope that made America famous. I had the kind of a dream that maybe they're still trying to teach in school. Of the America that made America famous...and Of the people who just might understand That how together yes we can Create a country better than The one we have made of this land, We have a choice to make each man who dares to dream, reaching out his hand A prophet or just a crazy God damn Dreamer of a fool...

  

  Harry Chapin
  • School
  • America
  • Hope

• We didn't want to live anymore in the old logic. And I like that. The consequence of that is to create the dream of that, but we all know this dream may be not possible. So here we have the key of the ambiguity of the atmosphere of my films. Is it possible, this dream? Is it as funny as it seems, or is it tragic?

  

  Albert Serra
  • Dream
  • Create
  • Atmosphere