Emmanuel Benbihy Quotes
Some filmmakers don't want to just entertain, to play with the audience like a little ball and then dump them. They want you to be imaginative, and if you're intrigued, the work will grow on you and you're going to build your own interpretation.
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Too bad, whenever adults tell kids to enjoy their childhoods, kids are like, 'You don't understand anything,' and everyone is right.
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Rowling is a luminous storyteller. I love her sense of humor and the intricate wizarding world she built around Hogwarts. I think all writers aspire to be like her, to capture readers like she does. But I didn't think about 'Harry Potter' when I wrote 'The Bone Season.'
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I shop at a lot of vintage stores because the prices are amazing, and I love the idea that there's a history behind the piece I'm wearing.
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I loved ninjas when I was younger.
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A lot of cable television is shot on a single camera. Our eyes are more trained to that. It takes the camera off the crane, away from observing the action, to becoming a character in the story along with everyone else. People are getting used to that.
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For the last 12 years, I've felt really privileged to be living such a normal life. It's so a part of who I am.
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Never Googled myself. I use a computer for market quotes and news, but I've never Googled myself. But I have visited their headquarters.
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It hurts when you have to smile and you don't want to smile, but the best thing to do is to smile.
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I started Michael years ago. I saw him in Gary, Indiana, and we'd have him on the talent shows. He kind of emulated me, and did the best he could.
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We'll continue to talk about that all week.
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Myrnin, who hadn't said much, suddenly reached out and wrapped his arms around her. She stiffened, shocked, and for a panicked second wondered whether he'd suddenly decided to snack on her neck... but it was just a hug. His body felt cold against hers, and way too close, but then he let go and stepped back. "You've done very well. I'm extremely proud of you," he said. There was a touch of color high in his pale cheeks. "Do go home now. And shower. You reek like the dead." Which, coming from a vampire, was pretty rich.
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When the desire is on for one particular person, nobody else will do.
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We had hoped to celebrate the Israeli democracy today in a different atmosphere, and now we are again forced to cope with murderous terror. The government of Israel will do what must be done in order to deal with the terrorists and those who dispatch them.
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You know, I think whatever a comic talks about onstage is all they talk about offstage.
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Egocentric: A person who has his I's too close together.
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An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself.
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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
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Some filmmakers don't want to just entertain, to play with the audience like a little ball and then dump them. They want you to be imaginative, and if you're intrigued, the work will grow on you and you're going to build your own interpretation.
