Imran Amed Quotes
As much as technology has made me so much more efficient, enabling me to run a small but global company from where I happen to be, at times it feels like the technology is running me, as opposed to the other way round.
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It's up to God to do the judging. You haven't walked in my boots, so how are you going to judge me?
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In English, the sounds and melodies I created were an inspiration to me, and words came to me as I explored the sounds, and from there I was able expand on the meaning.
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So many athletes who have been close to me have been everything to me.
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I think it was a good challenge for me to get my reactions across without being able to speak.
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But Eraserhead was the first real intense kind of thing I had ever done before the cameras and Lynch had to really bring me down a lot and he still does.
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Well if somebody's giving me a script, I'll consider it. But it's not something I'm chasing.
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As a kid, looking at Michael Jackson, Marvin Gaye, New Edition, the Temptations, Motown, people who I felt were huge artists, they made me wanna do something.
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I don't take on big things. What I do, pretty much, is make the big things small and the small things big.
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It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that's a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?
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I wanted to bring people together, and most importantly not feel threatened when they came to watch me box.
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The most memorable engagement for me, I suppose, was an away-day to Leicester. I went without William, so I was rather apprehensive about that.
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All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.
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I don't do a film unless it has a sword in it. And if it doesn't have a sword in it, I insist that they have one in the same room to keep me comfortable.
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You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
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I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.
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It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.
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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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I think people look at me and don't expect much. Even though, I expect a whole lot.
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When you give up a bit of work don't (unless it is hopelessly bad) throw it away. Put it in a drawer. It may come in useful later. Much of my best work, or what I think my best, is the re-writing of things begun and abandoned years earlier.
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Film is anti-language.
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Even good hearts know how to turn bad touch and genocide into clichés just to make room for more comfort.
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A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
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I've always been more drawn to being normal than being famous.
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As much as technology has made me so much more efficient, enabling me to run a small but global company from where I happen to be, at times it feels like the technology is running me, as opposed to the other way round.
