Barbara Demick Quotes
Kim Jong Un came in as a fresh face, so I think there's a great disappointment that he's playing the same game as his father.
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At least I want to be making films that are somehow born out of me that are stories I want to tell. The challenge is figuring out how to do it where you can make them personal, yet still deliver to an audience a film experience that is satisfying and emotional, and that's what I'm trying to do.
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Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
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I think people live in the past and tend to look that way, because they drop off when they're happiest and most successful.
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Free speech is not a bogus issue. It is an issue.
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You can take any one of our stories that we use right now, put western clothes on us, stick us out in the west and they'll work just as well - any single one of them - because they're stories about people, they're stories about things.
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'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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Explosions are not comfortable.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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We've come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can't imagine Dr. King watching the 'Real Housewives' or 'Jersey Shore.'
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Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.
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Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.
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I'm looking to expand my portfolio while I'm on top and while I'm young.
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I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.
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Marinating chicken in miso adds lots of character to the meat with little work.
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Ever since I was a kid, I've wanted to set a time that nobody can touch for many years.
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If you want to feel humor too exquisite and subtle for translation, sit invisibly among a gang of Negro workers.
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Fate is written in the face.
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I remember 'The Norfolk Journal and Guide,' which is a black newspaper that still exists, but it was really influential, as you can imagine, in the Forties, Fifties, and Sixties. But all of their archives are online and digitized, and it was a really great resource.
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Few things are more enjoyable than lingering over the atlas and plotting a trip.
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I do not want to respond to leaks that concern things that have to do with state secrets of the first degree.
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Kim Jong Un came in as a fresh face, so I think there's a great disappointment that he's playing the same game as his father.
