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The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'
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I just miss - I miss being anonymous.
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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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As far back as I can remember, I am one of those guys that works hard and plays harder. I have to have both.
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Do what you should, not what you may.
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I did 'Lone Star Love' in 2007 with Randy Quaid, and that was supposed to come to Broadway at the Belasco and a marquee went up and everything... and it all fell apart, and that marquee came right down, and we got severance pay. And, it was very sad.
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If you have put your faith in Christ and have spent significant time in the Word of God, the tough times can be like a magnet that draws you to the Lord Jesus. Nothing is going to happen - ever - that will catch Jesus Christ by surprise. He is able to help His children work through anything, and not a single thing is going to happen in the future that can change that fact.
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He never believed in fate or providence, or the future being made by someone in the sky. Instead, at every instant, a trillion trillion possible futures; the pickiness of pure chance and physical laws seemed like freedom from the scheming of a gloomy god.
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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.
