Darren Lynn Bousman Quotes
You can say, "I don't believe in anything," but you do because you believe in nothing. That is your belief system.
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While hereditary chiefs inhabit the apex of our traditional social systems, it would be a mistake to think they hold all the power. They aren't kings. They aren't dictators. They're answerable to their clans and their matriarchs. All decisions that affect our communities require lengthy, deliberate discussions and careful negotiation.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of support for a really increasingly brutal repression, colonial settlements and a new wall.
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If you're into a leather-jacketed crime fighter and his artificially intelligent robotic supercar, tune into 'The Good Wife.' If, on the other hand, you prefer the misadventures of a freelance itinerant trucker and his simian sidekick, check out 'The Walking Dead.' Or DVR them both and go talk to your family.
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I am grateful to theatre for making me what I am today. But it's not like theatre is my first love. I am equally attached to cinema, which is, actually, a child of theatre, since it borrows heavily from it.
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I think as far as the music industry is concerned, it's kind of been the wild, wild West in a way with the Internet, which is not necessarily a bad thing to me.
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When I'm not surfing or sailing, I am to be found at the harbour working on my boat.
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I'm always late.
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I don't think anyone who has been to Africa comes away untouched by the place. You see a lot of beauty and optimism, but you also come away with an awareness of the huge gulf between what most of us have and what most of them have to make do with. Then, every now and then, a famine or a war makes everything a hundred times worse.
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You don't inherit cancer; you actually get it.
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So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here.
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I think love is the through line and it's universal and it doesn't matter what period of time, time or place, or people, that's something we all connect to. That's the thin thread that I think keeps it altogether.
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All eyes are on you when you're modeling and acting, and I just didn't want the attention when I wasn't working. But as I've gotten older, I've become more comfortable with my body and am taking more fashion risks.
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Radicalization is very easy when you mock what people hold dear.
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I had been coming to New York, pretty much once a month, to dance on Broadway. I was offered a huge Broadway show but couldn't do it because my brother was having his huge Bar Mitzvah.
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The part that I think is one of the most interesting is of course the one that Hayden Christensen plays.
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Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.
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Do you know who taught the eagles to find their prey? Well, that same God teaches His hungry children to find their Father in His Word.
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Basically, I frittered away the Nineties making pop videos and being pretty self-indulgent.
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By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
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I actually got to write with one of my musical heroes, a guy named Raine Maida from Our Lady Peace. I got to sit down and write some songs with him, and that was pretty heavy. I listened to Our Lady Peace growing up. It got me through the teenage angst.
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You can say, "I don't believe in anything," but you do because you believe in nothing. That is your belief system.
