Zion Williamson Quotes
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The main objective of our cinema is to entertain. If you can pass on a message at the same time, that is fantastic, but if the audience does not feel they are going to be entertained by the film, they are not going to watch it. There are many examples of very responsible and great films that are being made, but nobody goes to watch them.
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The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.
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Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?
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For the most part, it's a very male-dominated business. Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that, even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.
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Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.
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When you do a film, you get picked up in a car, lunch is free. Theatre is really hard, and you get absolutely no money.
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Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
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Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
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I'm not a good guitar player.
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In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.
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Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?
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I was quite short and chubby until I was 14, when I shot up.
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I feel like as you get older, the roles you get change, and you don't always want to do the same tone over and over again.
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My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.
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The textile industry became a huge deal in 19th century America, kind of like the tech industry is today. And that immigrant tradition continues, especially in tech, America's most dominant and dynamic industry today.
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I've made it my mission to make movies starring African American actors and about the African American experience and put them in the mainstream. They're very universal stories I've told - every movie I've done.
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My life is gardening, cleaning around the house and power washing.
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Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.
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I thought if my son was now eighteen years old and he was tempted to join the fight and take the burden of protecting his family - because it's always tempting especially for young men - what would I do as a mother to stop him?
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I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.
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I'm not somebody who's emotionally attached to an outcome of a character that I'm hired to play. The fans are.
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Making the Hall of Fame, would it be something that's gratifying because of what I've sacrificed? Sure. Baseball has been a big part of our lives. We've sacrificed our bodies. It's the way we made our living.
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The hardest skill to acquire in this sport is the one where you compete all out, give it all you have, and you are still getting beat no matter what you do. When you have the killer instinct to fight through that, it is very special.
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Whoever wants me and whoever sees the most in me, that's where I want to be.
