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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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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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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Major organizational changes create uncertainty.
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If I get in a relationship, it's always for the long-term; if not, I don't see the point.
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We're making high-budget movies with a low-budget attitude.
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The medical profession is - and knows itself to be - endemically conservative and conformist.
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The most important images for human beings are simply words, which are abstract symbols. ...Evolution has greatly enlarged the front lobes of the human brain, which govern the sense of the past and the future; and... they are probably the seat of our other images.
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I run the Actor's Studio on the West Coast, and one of the things I say all the time to the people I teach - many of whom are acting teachers - is that an actor needs to make choices that make him present.
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I began reluctantly to steal from the present to pay off debts I knew I'd incur in the future.
