Tamer Hassan Quotes
If you're going to buy a suit, don't buy one off the peg if you can afford not to. Go to a tailor, as I always do; find the style you like, and have it fitted to your shape.
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When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it.
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If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
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It's very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it's merely about combining ingredients, but that's something you can do with your eyes closed.
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My style is very inspired by both my parents, so we all have the same taste.
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In Yellowstone National Park, there are more 'do not feed the animals' signs than there are animals you might wish to feed.
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As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than developing a true style of your own just from listening to music or playing other people's music.
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Nobody is gonna love you like you. You're gonna be your best salesman.
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Stuffed vine leaves tend to burn and/or stick when you cook them. To avoid this, use a heavy based pan lined with a few layers of second-rate leaves.
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With Altman, he does discuss everything with you, but then leaves you to it and gives you full rein and lets you improvise and create a character while the camera is rolling.
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When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
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You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.
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There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.
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The thing a drama school can't give you is instinct. It can sharpen instinct but that can't be taught, and you have to have intuition. It's an essential ingredient.
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I like women with style to wear my shoes.
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A book is a gift you can open again and again.
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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
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As Peter Bogdanovich would say of Paper Moon: Ryan's wonderful in it, and he sat there and watched the kid steal the picture.
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I've set the model of showing fighters how they should conduct their business.
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I'm not afraid of death. What's to fear? Once you're dead, that's it. Nothing. I don't believe in heaven or hell. That's baloney. What matters is the here and now. Yes, I'm 88, and there are things I can't do: I can't run a race or climb Everest. But isn't life magnificent?
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I rode my bike to school every day from age five to age fourteen. It was a small town - you could go anywhere.
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Successful people don't have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.
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If you're going to buy a suit, don't buy one off the peg if you can afford not to. Go to a tailor, as I always do; find the style you like, and have it fitted to your shape.
