Binnie Kirshenbaum Quotes
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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Most of the producers don't know what they do. The misconception of the producers' function is really not a misconception. Most producers don't do a very good job.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.
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Approaching people for work has not worked for me. People who came to me with work has worked.
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
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I was reading about all of these medical and psychological experimental programs that the government and various intelligence agencies had run throughout the 20th century. Any book you can read on that, there's some really horrifying and fascinating stuff that goes on there.
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If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.
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I had just 15 days to work on my body for the climactic fight of 'Bodyguard.' And I would work on every muscle of my body two/three times a week. I would have developed a superb body if I had three months, but squeezing it into 15 days can be harmful. Also, as you grow older, your metabolic rate slows down.
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'Radioactive' is the fall out of my life's inspirations, a testament to my ability to survive it all and to tell the story.
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I am grateful that as a reporter and as an anchor, people have allowed me to share their stories.
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Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.
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There's only one set of books I've written that I knew was going to be more than one book at the beginning, and those are the 'Missing Link' books.
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Cricket is my life. Before the cancer, I was happy-go-lucky. I used to think about my career and worry about the future. But post it, my thinking has completely changed. I'm happy to eat and breathe normally. I'm happy to have my life back.
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The secret to a long-lasting relationship is perpetually imagining the worst. It's a world view tracing back to my Eastern European ancestry and one I draw upon regularly.
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If you're trying to deal with being a marginalized person and trying to confront a larger population that isn't the same as you, you can be friendly about it, and invite everybody in, or you can be angry about it and be hostile and attack the systems that you want to destabilize.
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These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.
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Do you know what a blessing it is to make movies that make people happy?
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When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.
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Hers was not love lost; it was love denied.
