Adam Arkin Quotes
What I had to say was, in general, I'm not really a fan of any one genre of any kind of film.
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I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.
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Livelihoods and whole communities throughout the Murray-Darling Basin have been imperilled by the workings of drought, fire, flood, acid mud and human action over many decades. In the rescues and the cleanups and the long hauls, I see the same attitude over and again. People just rally and get on with it.
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'Trapped In The Closet' lives in a place on the earth on its own. It pays its own rent, it's its own landlord, it owns the building, it's everything. And it's so separate from what R. Kelly does; that's the great thing about it.
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NATO remains the cornerstone of Atlantic security.
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I think at first the Flume project really started out as an online thing. I used Facebook and SoundCloud, and I think we got lucky because it felt like a bit of a golden age of those social media platforms. So I managed to create quite a solid fan base online.
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I'm not interested in just beautiful girls and beautiful clothes.
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The fact we don't have a lunar base has nothing to do with the technology. It has to do with public commitment and societal support.
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Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many channels now, and the advertising's dropping.
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I've been writing songs since I was at least 20. That's what I wanted to do before I became a model.
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There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.
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It's absolutely critical that we not only provide support from cradle to career in the education system but also the wraparound services.
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How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?
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There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics.
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I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.
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I did a few DJ gigs at empty clubs, sort of as a warm-up set before Flume was a thing. I did one when I got big enough, and I had five friends come down, and they were the only ones dancing. That was one of my earliest ones. I was super nervous.
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I definitely think there's some way to understand how people emotionally feel about somebody, but I don't think data collects it. They're not going to click your bit.ly link or click your TweetMeme retweet every time.
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I remember having my father stand over me when I had driven over my own foot; one leg was out of the car and one leg was in the car. He looked at me and told me that I was a drunk and that he was ashamed to call me his son. That night, I stopped drinking and I never drank again; I was twenty four.
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People like to hear me say, 'You love me, Chandler Bing. You just don't know you love me.'
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The red-carpet thing of premieres and parties is probably my least favourite part of my job.
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When you watch the subtitled version you are probably missing just as many things. There is a layer and a nuance you're not going to get. Film crosses so many borders these days. Of course it is going to be distorted.
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It's kind of nice to play somebody that isn't psychotic or half-machine or dead or dying or on a spaceship somewhere.
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One of the curious things about censorship is that no one seems to believe in it for himself. We want censorship to protect someone else— the young, the unstable, the suggestible, the stupid. I have never heard of anyone who wanted a film or speaker banned because otherwise he himself might be harmed.
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What I had to say was, in general, I'm not really a fan of any one genre of any kind of film.
