Anne Bernays Quotes
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The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.
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No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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In India, by and large, women are not educated enough to be bread winners and, within the moorings of traditional cultures, do not have the courage and the capacity to leave the matrimonial home. Given the inequality prevalent in family structures, the woman's right to opt out is suicidal.
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We all have original ideas. Even if we don't see ourselves as supercreative or as wild nonconformists, we have insights every day about how the world around us could be better. It might be a better way of running meetings in your office that would be less mind-numbing. It might be a little twist on a product or a service.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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Fifteen- to 30-year-olds are interested in all kinds of intelligent movies - it doesn't have to be a broad comedy or an action adventure for them to go see it.
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I don't think any particular painters have inspired me, except in a general sense. It was more a matter of corroboration. The visual arts, from Manet onwards, seemed far more open to change and experiment than the novel, though that's only partly the fault of the writers. There's something about the novel that resists innovation.
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The idea of doing a production of 'Carousel' that doesn't feel like it's stuck in the 1950s really intrigues me.
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When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
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Generally speaking, I don't think people know a great deal about the Viking culture, apart from the label that is usually attached to them, either pillagers or deviants who came and brought back loot to Norway. It was an incredibly sophisticated, complex and layered culture. They had their own laws, many of which protected women.
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It is only when there is the supervision and critical oversight from the people that the government will be in a position to do an even better job, and employees of government departments will be the true public servants of the people.
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The world of religion isn't a logical world; that's why children like it. It's a world of worked-out fantasies, very similar to children's stories or fairy tales.
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The first story I finished was when I was six years old.
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There are some great human beings out there. That's all I can say.
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I used to love going and playing jam sessions, doing things spontaneously. I can't do that anymore. Everything you do is documented, nothing is casual anymore.
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If I wasn't an actor, I would probably be writing or doing something with psychology.
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There's a lot of comics writers out there whose work I appreciate and who are nice guys. I really want to work with guys I really respect and enjoy.
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I either delegate something, I dump it, or I deal with it.
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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
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I love going to museums, especially the Met, because there's always room for discovery, or the Neue Galerie. It's a great jewel box.
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With the young generation, there are even more women than men making movies right now.
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You see why we play so many crazy ladies. We have to be crazy to start with.
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Publishers never tell writers anything. They're all crazy and they drive me crazy.
