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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My aim is to change the social norms of Pakistan; women here look up to me. I started very early, worked on myself, and the effect is for all to see.
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A woman should be an illusion.
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I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.
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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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I think about women and their thoughts and ideas, and I suppose when I'm painting them I'm getting to be them, in a sense. That is why I plainly paint women.
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I don't get easily bored. I'm not that kind of person.
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The world is satisfied with words, few care to dive beneath the surface.
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As for complicating the black metal aesthetic, I don't care about that since it was never a goal of mine to lay out any particular preconceived aesthetic, let alone one of traditional black metal where pseudonyms are adopted.
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Adventure works in any strand—it calls to those who care more for living than for their lives.
