Nadine Labaki Quotes
I think the first film you do with your instincts because you haven't learned with another director or you haven't worked on other films, so you tend to do things your own way. I think what I learned the most was to take your time, to try to be less rushed into things and have some distance with what you're doing.
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Not only is self-regulation largely a fantasy, but repeated scandals across multiple industries have proved that companies are fundamentally incapable of self-regulating for the greater good.
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And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.
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A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.
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When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing.
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I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
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I have a ton of videos on MySpace and YouTube.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
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My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.
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When you're really close to someone, they can make fun of you a lot and get away with it. But they sort of poke you in all of the right places.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very understood.'
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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I am going to Rio with a chance of a medal.
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I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
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The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.
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David Lynch helped me be cool.
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I don't know why there aren't more Depression buffs.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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I think, as a kid, whenever you say you want to be an actor, you get discouraged, so perhaps if I had have listened to those people telling me that, I might have gone down the route of a teacher. But I was never really going to do that.
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One way of opening ourselves up to new opportunities is to make conscious efforts to look differently at our ordinary situations. Doing so allows a person to see the world as one rife with possibility and to take advantage of some of those possibilities if they seem worth pursuing.
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We can invoke spiritual compensation when we find ourselves in situations of material lack.
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I think the first film you do with your instincts because you haven't learned with another director or you haven't worked on other films, so you tend to do things your own way. I think what I learned the most was to take your time, to try to be less rushed into things and have some distance with what you're doing.
