Lee Tamahori Quotes
Sex should not be in the movies and should be in the home, and violence should be in the movies and not in the home.
Quotes to Explore
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In Iran I think nobody loses their job because of making a statement that reflects their opinion. From this point of view, conditions in Iran are far better than in many other places in the world.
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We are paying the price for living longer, collecting degenerative diseases along the way. Cancer is only one. Others are heart and brain diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinsons.
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I don't go out anywhere. I don't go to nightclubs, so meeting somebody in the nightclub is out of question.
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Everybody dresses like a teenager. Everybody dyes their hair. Everybody is concerned about a smooth face.
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My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
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The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
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Everyone freaks out because my character is the only one who has shorts on the Galactica. Well, that is because I went and grabbed a pair of pants and scissors and cut them off and gave her shorts.
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I have never had the ambition to be famous for nothing. You have to do something with your life.
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When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.
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There's more things that I'd like to do. You know, each song is a little bit of a puzzle. I see most of them as just failed attempts.
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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it.
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I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.
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The weather in California is so much hotter than it is in England that it's absolutely changed my style. I have many more dresses and shorts than I ever thought I would coming from U.K.! It's so much easier to dress femininely in a warm climate.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
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It is well for a man to respect his own vocation whatever it is and to think himself bound to uphold it and to claim for it the respect it deserves.
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I love to stay at home and write.
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People forget that there are villages and communities that are still speaking French all over Canada. I went to a bar and spoke with some French people there, and they were saying: 'I went to English school, but at home it was always French, and that's going to be the way it is for my kids.' It's important for them to keep that language alive.
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When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.
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I was lucky that when Lorne Michaels came looking for women comedy writers, there weren't too many in New York at the time. I was at the top of a very short list. I think that was all good fortune.
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Sex should not be in the movies and should be in the home, and violence should be in the movies and not in the home.
