Raymond E. Feist Quotes
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In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it!
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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In other words, I wouldn't like to be an actor if I could only be real. I like to get wild, behaviorally wild, and it's crazy to think of any form where it's just one way.
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I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family.
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We have several million Muslims in France who are mostly moderates or non-practicing. If they feel that it is the only subject in public debate, they won't feel at home and will be tempted to withdraw to their communities.
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I'm waiting for the day when my children cease to find my domestic propriety reassuring and actually find it annoying.
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I knew what I wanted to do in sport from the age of nine.
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Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.
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With 'Aja,' there was a sort of happy conjunction between our tastes and the backgrounds and styles of studio musicians at the time.
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I like 'The Usual Suspects'. Great film. I also like 'Scarface', films like that. Lots of gangster films. I really like watching all kinds of films, dramas, romance. I'll watch comedies. I like Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Denzel Washington, Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle. I'd like to meet them.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
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To do a studio film, something with Disney. My father is thrilled.
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Here's the thing about Apple technology: once you own a piece, you want to use it.
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Nixon was kind of a loner, he had a cold personality.
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There is a stage with people we love when we are no longer separate from them, but so close in sympathy that we live through them as directly as through ourselves. ... we push back our hair because theirs is in their eyes.
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With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.
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Audiences know what to expect, and that is all that they are prepared to believe in.
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I would say issues around human rights - either you're going to take a hard stance, or you're not. You can't borrow money from China the way the U.S. has done and then turn around and say, 'But you've got a human-rights problem.' You can't be half pregnant.
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We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.
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Life is problems. Living is solving problems.
