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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I felt, selfishly, that if there was going to be a TV show about 'Hannibal Lecter' whether I was going to be involved or not, I'd rather be involved. I wanted to make sure it was something I wanted to watch.
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I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.
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I do think there are some actors that can get away with trying to be funny, and they're still funny because they're just likeable, and you want to see them. Me, though, when you see me trying to be funny, it's like the worst thing in the world. It's needy, it's cloying, it's manipulative - it's bad.
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'Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes' was really well done.
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Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may have all these and yet remain comparatively useless - be unhappy - and die a bankrupt in soul.
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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.
