Deniz Gamze Erguven Quotes
The foreign-language Oscar is something that doesn't go to the producer or the director; it goes to the country.
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If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.
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I am now in a position to choose roles. I did not have so many offers before 'Queen,' but now things have changed a lot.
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In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.
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Napster has pointed the way for a new direction for music distribution, and we believe it will form the basis of important and exciting new business models for the future of the music industry.
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I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.
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Nobody took you out for lunch when I started. Carla Bruni took me out for lunch once. She was really nice. Otherwise, you don't get fed.
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I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.
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I'm very fortunate. I have a wonderful family, lots of hobbies and athletic pursuits. I always wanted to have a very well-rounded life.
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Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.
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Music is my balance... center of my life.
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There is no right or wrong way of giving. People in Los Angeles have made major contributions in different ways to the city: Eli Broad to art. David Geffen to hospitals. I'm not judgmental.
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Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more.
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Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with friends and not acolytes.
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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
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People I looked up to a lot were, you know, Oprah because she had a rough childhood but overcame so many obstacles and broke barriers to become who she is. It was really eye opening to me: just because I had a rough childhood doesn't mean that I can't make something of myself.
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Neatness - which is grooming, after all - is definitely the most important requirement.
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Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.
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Baseball gets better for whatever reason.
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It really sucks to be the number two intelligent species on this planet; you can just ask gorillas.
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Luxury is not a $4,000 T-shirt - that's just an expensive item, the same as if a can of Coca-Cola cost $5,000.
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When we discover this and give our lives to it, we are leaders. This is the Path of Leadership. Whatever our age or phase of life, we must enter and stay on the Path of Leadership. The future of the world depends upon it-upon you.
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I'm probably the only guy in the country who can say he's worked under Chuck Noll and Don Shula.
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Nigel: Why the cheap jokes? Jack: Cheap? When I was a kid, we were made to stay away from school on Empire Days so we wouldn't have to wave one of those little Union Jacks. We were the richest country in the world then, or so I'm told, and my old man bow-legged from malnutrition. Us kids nearly died laughing.
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The foreign-language Oscar is something that doesn't go to the producer or the director; it goes to the country.
