Najib Razak Quotes
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This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
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I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot. I have to see the end first because I like a surprise in the end. Which is why I let characters and plot gestate in my mind.
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I was definitely incredibly close to my dad, in a way that was all-encompassing. I am close to my mum, too, but there were areas that she and I did not share. So his loss to me was huge, personally and professionally. He believed in me, not just as a father, but as a director, and that always meant a lot.
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A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said, you still look like a Campbell's Soup kid.
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It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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If you're old enough to be arrested, you're old enough to carry a gun.
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We are so blessed to be here in America. We have freedom and opportunity unlike anywhere else in the world.
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Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.
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Nearly half of the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to build a sustainable civilization. Many of these people are lunatics, but they are not the lunatic fringe.
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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
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Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.
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I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by.
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The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individually.
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Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not.
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In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, other minorities didn't have a place in such a vision of a nation-state.
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There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.
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I turned a lot of people in white America - and not just white America, but middle-class America - into hip-hoppers, you know?
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I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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At the beginning of the week, when we do our game planning, we look at the opponent and all the unique things they do.
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As you know with the Arab Spring, there were no dividends.
