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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I don't think you can talk about progress in art - movement, but not progress. You can speak of a point on a line for the purpose of locating things, but it's a horizontal line, not a vertical one.
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An artist is born like a priest is born. If they are born an artist, I would tell them art is not a game: it is something very serious which completely requires everything you have to give.
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You know, we travelled a lot when I was a kid because my father was wherever the work was.
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He suffers from one great literary defect, which is often found in lonely geniuses: he never knows when to stop. Lonely people are apt to fall in love with the sound of their own voice, as Narcissus fell in love with his reflection, not out of conceit but out of despair of finding another who will listen and respond.
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I've won some awards. 'Time' magazine designated me as one of the environmental heroes of the 20th century. Oh, and I've got some honorary citizenships, like from the Conch Republic of the Florida Keys. But the one thing I am proud of is I didn't get the Chevron environmental award. Never did get that one.
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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.
