Tamara Tunie Quotes
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'The Sundial' is written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh.
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I believe that if you eat well, you work even better.
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You can't just let nature run wild.
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Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.
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We didn't have much money growing up, so we hopped around L.A. a lot in the '70s, '80s and '90s. I'm very familiar with the shifting culture there.
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In Iran, people are free to express their views. Every day, some people criticize the policies of the government.
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All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
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If you are a businessman or a politician in Iran, you can get a visa as quickly as you ask for it.
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I try to support stories that enable us to see the difficulties in our society and the challenges we face, which is why I've also produced documentaries like 'Brick City' and 'Serving Life.'
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In order to do 'Amores Perros,' I had to skip some time at drama school, so the director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu came up with a great Latin American solution, which was to say I had a tropical disease and had to stay in Mexico for a while. Everyone believed me.
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People know that I am a very good author. But they would rather read what I have to say about the next election.
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I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.
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Humor is an antidote to all ills.
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My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
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In sport, a massive amount is to do with genetics.
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If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.
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I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.
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What my father especially taught me was to not always take the safe road, the easy road. If you are going to do good work, you have to risk failing badly.
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Martin Luther King subpoened the nation's conscience. He was killed for it.
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I'm still kind of a hapless character in my everyday life. But when it comes to the writing, my influences are very old influences. I love American music of absolutely all stripes, including show tunes, advertising jingles, theme tunes from quiz shows, all kinds of American music.
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Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.
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We've gone further on this album, where we have a Big Band song, kind of a Sinatra-type song; we have a couple songs that have electronic music on them. We've got a couple rock songs, maybe a little heavier than what we've done. So the title 'Jekyll & Hyde' really covers the breadth of the record.
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I am always happy to use my song and dance training.
