Ali Babacan Quotes
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I don't speak Spanish. I understand enough of it, having spent some time running Telemundo, and I put in a lot of time in Spain during the Barcelona Olympics. But I don't pretend to speak Spanish, and I don't want anyone to think that I can.
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I think I'm a guy who loves to play defense. I have a great time in the outfield. I think it's fun robbing guys on hits - there are plenty of times you're gonna be robbed as a hitter.
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Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.
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History's a resource.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.
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My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward.
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It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.
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Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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I joke that my niche in Hollywood has been naked foreigners.
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I have problems with a lot of photography, particularly street photography and photojournalism - objectifying the other, finding the contempt and exoticism that you might feel within yourself or toward yourself and projecting it out to others. There can be an abusive power to photography, too.
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I just want to be the best Carly Rae I can be.
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There's also the tradition of voodoo, the Haitian magic arts, in New Orleans. And because New Orleans is below sea level, when they bury people in New Orleans, it's mostly above ground. So you have this idea that the spirits are more accessible and can access you more easily because they're not even buried.
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Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.
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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.
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America's belated embrace of government health care is going to be far more expensive and disastrous than the Euro-Canadian models. Whatever one's philosophical objection to the Canadian health system, it is, broadly, fair: Unless you're a cabinet minister or a big time hockey player, you'll enjoy the same equality of crappiness and universal lack of access that everybody else does. But, even before it's up-and-running, Pelosi-Reid-Obamacare is an impenetrable thicket of contradictory boondoggles, shameless payoffs and arbitrary shakedowns.
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Oh, and Scott, get Mark to play me. He's the most talented one anyway.
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I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world.
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From an animation perspective, it doesn't get better than Pixar. You're working so much in the blind because the huge circle of collaborators that's required to pull off a film like this means that you are just one small arc in that large circle. The level of trust that you have to give into is significant.
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I always say, 'To have a big dream requires the same effort as having a small dream. Dream big!'
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The fast fish, not the big fish, eats the small fish.
