Salvador Dali Quotes
There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
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So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
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I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.
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When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.
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If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me.
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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I'm lucky that I have my family, I'm lucky that my parents are still together. Those are the things that I cherish.
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The older I get, the more I realize the importance of maintaining an even temperament - not getting too emotional, focusing on the task at hand. You don't want to make a business deal based on your emotions.
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One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict.
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I think it's important that things are flawed.
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I like things simple.
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Rey is so strong. She's cool and smart and she can look after herself. Young girls can look at her and know that they can wear trousers if they want to. That they don't have to show off their bodies.
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Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a character entirely unlike myself, but to also make such a character a part of me. There is no routine here; there is no boredom.
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One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.
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I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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He who awaits much can expect little.
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I seem to get into situations that make people laugh, but I don't consider myself that funny of a person. I'm not witty. I'm kind of slow in conversations. I'm not that articulate with jokes. The first time I made stuff and screened it for an audience, I was surprised what people were laughing at.
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I think it's important that things are flawed.
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Jesus said, "Any of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be my disciple" (Luke 14:33). We must honestly face the question, "Am I willing to give up a certain practice or habit that is keeping me from holiness?" It is at this point of commitment that most of us fail. We prefer to dally with sin, to try to play with it a little without getting too deeply involved.
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'Mad Men' has been my big break. I'm beyond thrilled.
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Only a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States.
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There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
