André Aciman Quotes
I began reluctantly to steal from the present to pay off debts I knew I'd incur in the future.
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I'd love to do all types of film, not just comedy, although I love comedy.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
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Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.
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Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.
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Without a doubt, I'd love to do Broadway. I actually can't wait to get back to musical theater.
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The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.
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No one person is an island.
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Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.
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It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.
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I feel that 'The Great Failure' is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of who a human being is.
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I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'
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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
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Don't believe what I say. Believe what I do.
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I archive a lot of my clothes and have them wrapped up and in boxes. I call them 'little tombs' and keep them in a storage space... I would never get rid of the dress I wore on the night I won my Oscar. When I die, someone can have it, but not a minute before!
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Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
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There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.
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Writers, actors, anybody working on an ensemble-type thing, there are going to be some creaks in the beginning. It seems like there's tremendous potential in just letting things sort of breathe a little bit. It's tremendously important.
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What's great in theater is that you can sustain the arc of a character for a full three hours, whereas in film or TV, you have to create that arc in little pieces, and usually out of sequence.
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We shot 'Party Girl' on film, and I remember being told, 'We need to get this in two takes because we don't have a lot of film in the mag right now!'
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I think it's one of those funny things - sometimes you're not really friends with somebody until you've gotten into a good fight, and I think that's the situation with Superman and Batman.
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Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem.
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I find drug use disrespectful, self destructive and weak. I want no part of it. I believe in complete respect for myself and others.
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You can't be funny unless you're tragic, and you can't be tragic unless you're funny.
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I began reluctantly to steal from the present to pay off debts I knew I'd incur in the future.
