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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I am no historian, but Hungary is a country which has never known democracy - and by that, I mean not a democratic political system, but an organic process which has mobilised the entire country's society. In the case of Hungary, this development was blocked by the growth of the Ottoman empire in the 16th century.
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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The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'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 remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'
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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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I'm really only happy when I'm on stage. I just feed off the energy of the audience. That's what I'm all about - people and laughter.
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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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I'm living the American dream.
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I'm trying to move a little more toward literary fiction while still retaining a popular feel.
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We never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness.
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I have long come to believe that, more than any other destruction, our word-recklessness is endangering the future of us all.
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The past doesn't determine your future unless you carry it with you into the present. Forgiving yourself and others, you free the universe to begin again at any moment.
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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.
