Edmond Jabes Quotes
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As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
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I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
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For the most part, I do a lot of my own stunts. On 'The Final Destination,' they kept pulling my stunt woman in, and I'd shoo her away. I'm a black belt in tae kwon do, so I was adamant about doing stuff myself.
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
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Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
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I'm very happy with what I've accomplished, but we're going for more.
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I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.
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It's a matter of pride to me to get the film done fast, to get it done well. I understand the need for compromise. There is no such thing as a perfect shot, a perfect film. The purpose of film is not to make a monument to oneself.
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I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.
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During a transformation, it's understandable to be hesitant about moving too fast, especially at the outset.
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I'm an all-or-nothing person.
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We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?
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But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.
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I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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Every city has a Donald Trump; ours is just the Trumpiest.
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I would never be able to spend all my life in a busy city like Mumbai.
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Nothing is ours except time.
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“Metaphors replace genuine uncertainty about the world with semantic ambiguity. A metaphor is a cover-up.”
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One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.
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Happiness is a state of mind.
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Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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A great love carries within it a mourning for love.
