Ingrid Betancourt Quotes
The only thing I've settled in my mind is that I want to forgive, and forgiveness comes with forgetting.
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Today, I guess I give a lot more thought to the roles before I sign them.
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Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.
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There's a restaurant I go to whenever I can called The Richmond Cafe. It's a little Thai restaurant owned by a group of Thai women - I think they're all a family, and they're just really, really nice, and they make amazing massaman curry.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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What's the most humiliating thing? When you take someone to dinner or you cook somebody dinner and they get food poisoning. I mean, how bad do you feel?
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You can tell if you're going to be into a script within the first five or ten pages - if I'm not completely engaged by page 20, I just have to give up on it.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
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That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
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A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
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Minor Threat was an important band, believe me that it was important it in my life, but it belongs to an era that no longer exists. I'm not nostalgic. I think music today is much more important, because something can be done about it.
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Where I come from, deeds mean a lot more than words.
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When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.
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I did have one bad accident up north near Deerhurst. I was driving back in the winter on these snowy roads, and these two snowmobilers were racing up a hill and they weren't looking, so they caught me as I was going up the other side of the hill, and they smashed into me.
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I am indebted to the Indian Army, from my birth till now; I have grown and imbibed the indomitable spirit of this fighting force.
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My mom had an audition for a commercial when I was about two and a half, and I ran in crying and interrupted her. They thought I was cute so they offered me a commercial role. My mom was skeptical and a bit nervous about the child actor thing, but I was extremely bossy and convinced them I wanted to try it.
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The films of which I'm most proud I've written are the ones that pivot on forgiveness.
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For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.
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The only thing I've settled in my mind is that I want to forgive, and forgiveness comes with forgetting.
