Noureddine Morceli Quotes
I am still young. I have a lot of time. And if someone breaks my records in the future, I won't cry. That's sport.
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I've been very fortunate with my three spec scripts - which is sort of my thematic trilogy of the American Frontier. With 'Sicario', 'Hell or High Water' and then 'Wind River' - which is the third - there were no rewrites. It was the first draft for all three.
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
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And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.
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The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.
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I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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The problem with most Hollywood movies is they don't give the director enough control.
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The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'
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If I start working on something, I get a little too driven.
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There has been a failure to grasp how competing narratives fight for the attention of angry young Muslims, and we have grossly underestimated the appeal of the jihadist brand.
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Lifespan extension has never really been a goal of aging science, nor should it.
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Everywhere I've turned somebody has wanted to sacrifice me for my good-only they were the ones who benefited. And now we start on the old sacrificial merry-go-round. At what point do we stop?
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It's the nicest birthday I've ever had. You've made a happy man very old.
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When an old person dies who has been a part of your life, it is part of your youth that dies.
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I grew up in Georgia, so I grew up listening to the Allman Brothers.
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I was about three years old when I started playing in Venezuela with my two older brothers. They're 12 and 11 years older, so I was always the little one.
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And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say.
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I think the most important cause for me is to try to represent honesty. I'm not saying I'm perfect, but it's about trying to be true to who you are.
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A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten.
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What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find.
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I'm interested in directing movies about situations that I've lived, so they are almost a personal essay about what I've come to believe in.
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I get over a hundred letters a day from all over the world, from children and parents, and it's a wonder I ever have time to write books, let alone speak!
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I am still young. I have a lot of time. And if someone breaks my records in the future, I won't cry. That's sport.
