Zak Orth Quotes
As far as writing or directing a film, I've worked with enough people who have done that that I know it's just a whole other level of responsibility and chaos and murder that I could not see happening. For now, I'm just going to see what comes. I know what I like and what direction I have.
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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.
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Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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I don't work out and be healthy and want a strong body because I want to look good in a bikini. I do all of those things for me and for my health. I'm not going on the cover of 'Maxim' and 'FHM' because that's not me.
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It's very important to me that people who are actual chefs and other professionals in the culinary world, understand that I'm not, and have never held myself out as being, like a CIA trained chef.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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I think a great athlete transcends eras.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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We don't worry about the integrity of our game. I'm more focused on the atmosphere in the arena, and that's something we're comfortable with going forward.
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As I understand, the role of the federal judiciary, the role of our court system, is to provide justice.
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I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two.
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The process of writing a book is like the process of preparing a dinner. Serving dishes, choosing ingredients and so on.
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I don't paint anymore. I haven't since I abandoned it at 19, in order to begin writing seriously.
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Theater represents to me this phenomenon in juxtaposition to real life, where there are all these imposed guidelines.
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I feel that these stories are being written to articulate certain confusions and disappointments, and I do mean to shake up the reader, and I do hope they're on target.
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Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
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As far as writing or directing a film, I've worked with enough people who have done that that I know it's just a whole other level of responsibility and chaos and murder that I could not see happening. For now, I'm just going to see what comes. I know what I like and what direction I have.
