Aleksandar Hemon Quotes
When I came to America, I was already a writer, already published in Bosnia. I was planning to go back, but I had no choice but to stay here after the civil war, so I enrolled at Northwestern in a master's program and studied American literature.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
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It's not just the actor in front of the camera. And it's important to have respect for all those people that work behind the camera.
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Beauty products always cheer me up and give me hope. If it makes you feel pretty, why not?
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As most actors/actresses, I don't like to watch my own movies, either, and I never look at the dailys while filming.
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How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
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I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.
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Breitbart media is named after the same gentleman who basically framed Shirley Sherrod during the Obama administration.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.
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As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
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I conceived the original 'Deus Ex' and was the project director on the game.
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I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.
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I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me.
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I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression.
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You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
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I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette. I feel like people treat me now how I should be treated. People used to be shocked, when I was blond, that I wasn't stupid.
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I learn a lot from acting, but it's not my natural way. I can't help but write; I do it all the time. It's a condition of being for me.
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But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder. Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act. And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act,-at least in theory.
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Becoming an actor is like becoming a father. It's not hard to become one. Making a life of it is the challenge.
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And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale.
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What media loves is to focus on the candidates. What the American people, I believe, want is for us to focus on them, not the candidates, not anymore.
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When I came to America, I was already a writer, already published in Bosnia. I was planning to go back, but I had no choice but to stay here after the civil war, so I enrolled at Northwestern in a master's program and studied American literature.
