Aaliyah Quotes
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A bowler is his own captain. I know what needs to be done, what the ball is doing. If you don't know where you are going to bowl and where you think the batsman will hit, then how can you tell the captain what you want? You are the judge.
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You've got to be taught to hate and fear.
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Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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You put anyone in the outfit, and they look like Gandalf. Not that clever.
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You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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When readers close the covers on 'Running the Rift,' I want them to understand that it is not a genocide novel but rather a story of hope and rebirth.
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I'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.
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The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.
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When you scratch the surface, every one of us has something that we deeply want to contribute to the world. All we have to do is step up and do it.
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It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It wasn't fun. It was exhausting, but I was young and convinced I knew best.
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I want to be engaged and moved by theatre, there's nothing more disappointing than being left cold. After 'The Author,' I felt wrung out emotionally, like a used tissue.
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If you publish something in traditional media, it's one-way. With social media, we get all this info coming back from those who read our posts.
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Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
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If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too.
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If you get a guy that can play a couple positions, it helps you out a real lot.
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I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.
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You don't need Beanie Sigel in the building with a pre-perception that this crazy dude might do anything.
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I take a script and mull over it and underline the bits I want to emphasize. When I go to the set, I know exactly what I want to do.
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I just feel it's important to make sure that behind the scenes is as filled with diverse voices as in front of the scene is.
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I'm the first Icelandic director who started working on U.S. movies. There are others behind me now, but it's like when Bjork opened the door for Icelandic musicians to work abroad. We're such a closed-off country, but Bjork broke the spell. And I'm glad it was a woman who did it. She showed us we could break this barrier.
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The idea of designing something that is like something else is incredibly uninteresting and boring.
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Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.
