Luca Guadagnino Quotes
You know when they say you need to put people who go well together? I much prefer to put people who fight at the table. Then you have some sort of sparkle at the dinner!
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
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I want to see more Asians on TV. I want to see more faces like mine on TV.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
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We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?
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I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.
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It's not necessary that every film has to hit Rs 100 crore box office, or the Rs 50 crore budget. If the film makes double of its project budget, we consider that a hit, and that also means that the film is in profit.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn't know how we'd make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us.
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Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are.
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Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.
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I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
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A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
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What we find is that if you have a goal that is very, very far out, and you approach it in little steps, you start to get there faster. Your mind opens up to the possibilities.
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For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.
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When I first came to do shows in Vegas, I followed the usual entertainer's syndrome - I played craps and lost.
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Anything that we do to make ourselves feel worthy and safe is a flight from the pain of powerlessness. Every pursuit of external power - every attempt to change the world or a person in order to make yourself feel valuable and safe - is a distraction from the pain of powerlessness.
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It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there'd be consequences if they didn't move back. Now, there has been some removal of the foreign forces.
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It's not hard for me to be funny. But it's really hard. I don't think a lot of people are funny. I meet a lot of people, and most of them aren't funny.
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People don't like the same thing. You have to keep their attention.
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I am proud that a majority of my law clerks have been women.
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Spinning yarns is a protection against the nuttiness... the greed, the hate all around us.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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You know when they say you need to put people who go well together? I much prefer to put people who fight at the table. Then you have some sort of sparkle at the dinner!
