Renato Dulbecco Quotes
I know mortality exists, but I cannot do anything about it. So it does not make me anxious.
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Dramas make me laugh. The other day, I saw 'The Place Beyond the Pines,' and I was giggling the whole time. I laugh when I'm uncomfortable.
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When I was around 12, my heroes were Cindy Sherman and Bob Dylan and Samuel Westing from the kids' novel 'The Westing Game'.
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I'm not in a position to go back into public service.
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I never was in the Nation of Islam... I mean, what I call myself is a natural Muslim, 'cause it's just me and God. You know, going to the mosque, the ritual and the tradition, it's just not in me to do. So I don't do it.
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Rice and vermicelli is a common combination in Arab and Turkish cooking - it has a lighter texture than rice on its own.
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Good material is good material.
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In North America, more than half of all children travel to school by bus. We need a similar programme in London.
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I have had a lot of good things happen, but I've also had a lot of terrible things happen.
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I'm kind of a pop culture stew, you know.
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I know that my tendency is to be linear, and I'm trying to find ways to subvert that. And so in 'Bellocq's Ophelia' my device for subverting it was to tell the story and then to tell it again; it always circles back to this one moment, and it's not linear, but it's round in that way, and much of 'Native Guard' is like that.
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Parents don't make mistakes because they don't care, but because they care so deeply.
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I was always the type of person that whenever I started something I finished it. And, I was always held accountable for my actions.
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You spend enough time with someone, you're going to have your run-ins.
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You can have the best training, but just feeling full can make you sluggish and cause you to lose.
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What I say is from my heart. You must be sincere. So when I sing a song, people are supposed to feel it.
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Children when they ask you why your mama so funny say she is a poet she don't have no sense
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We made drawings the size of a whole quarter of a room ceiling, which we would then send on to the model makers. I did this every day for two years. Even now I can draw cartouches with my eyes closed.
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Sometimes things just aren't of their time, and they take a minute to catch on, or they find an audience later. Sometimes bizarre little films are the ones that everyone remembers later. With most big major blockbusters, people will have already forgotten about it two weeks after it came out.
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People keep trying to make me a movie star but they just don't understand. I'm not a movie star, I'm an actor.
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I actually started in comedy, but then after 'Deadwood' I started concentrating on the dramas more. But then I just got tired for raping and killing and figured, 'It's time to do another comedy.'
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When we no longer seek God for His blessings, we have time to seek Him for Himself.
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I know mortality exists, but I cannot do anything about it. So it does not make me anxious.
