Amal El-Mohtar Quotes
Adventure works in any strand—it calls to those who care more for living than for their lives.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
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A woman should be an illusion.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
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In December 2004, I travelled on the road from Uzbekistan across the Oxus River on which the first Soviet convoys had rolled into Afghanistan 25 years before.
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When high school students ask to spend their afternoons and weekends in my laboratory, I am amazed: I didn't develop that kind of enthusiasm for science until I was 28 years old.
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio. When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.
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I sometimes think if I had gone to Oxford or Cambridge and looked like a handsome young guy who could be in an Evelyn Waugh novel or something, I'd be a massive movie star. But there's a longevity to what I do. It's more reliable. Someone isn't deciding that I'm the next big thing.
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I think that was the case here. We just wanted it to be good for everybody.
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I always wear flat shoes, because I can't walk in anything else.
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Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.
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If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.
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My best friend is my husband.
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Move fast. Speed is one of your main advantages over large competitors.
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The Orioles made me. I didn't make the Orioles.
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There are deaths in public places on the grounds that the victim is gay.
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I always wanted so much glamour in my life, so I have always been obsessed with class, and from dating a few people who were from old money and a few from new money in my 20s, I just sort of became obsessed with this idea of clueless rich people.
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I think people get satisfaction from living for a cause that's greater than themselves. They want to leave an imprint. By writing books, I'm trying to do that in a modest way.
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A prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from snares, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves.
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A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.
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Adventure works in any strand—it calls to those who care more for living than for their lives.
