Nadine Labaki Quotes
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
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The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.
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If there's one thing that I've done on purpose it's to take whatever job, so long as it's interesting and challenging, whether it's theatre, radio, TV or film.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
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I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.
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After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.
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The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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I was the only Christian on the cast, but that was cool because we all respected each others talent and mostly they respected me a lot even though I was the only Christian.
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Women just love to shop.
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E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.
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Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.
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I think there has never ever been a career like John Williams'. That whole 'Jaws' phenomenon - there's nobody that knows how to use music like Spielberg, and John is just the perfect analog to Spielberg.
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Yale has influenced the Central Intelligence Agency more than any other university, giving the CIA the atmosphere of a class reunion.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It's not healthy.
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Most days I struggle just to be accepted into the camp of plain old feminists. This is mainly because I am not by nature ideological and generally suspicious of people who are.
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I want to keep talking about my people and my country in my own language.
