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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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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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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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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I'll back up anything my dad says.
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I'm attracted to male gestures and sexuality.
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You have to study the people and the ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.
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How many songs in your life were your favorite songs but never were singles on albums?
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I want your life filling and stirring me. I want your happiness beneath my heart and your sorrows in my eyes and your peace in the fingers of my hand.
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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The thing about dancing - what it taught me all those years - is it gives you an amazing sense of discipline in forcing yourself to do things that you know are good for you but you don't really want to do.
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The best instruction is that which uses the least words sufficient for the task.
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I've realised that if I aim for a successful record, I probably won't have any success. But if I keep making weird things, then hopefully the audiences will come to us.
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Language is a form of organized stutter.
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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.
