Anthony Minghella Quotes
I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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If you're not riddled with doubt, you've probably done something wrong.
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I always tell people I want to see the world through His eyes, and I want people to see Him in me.
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The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.
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The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries.
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We're going to be treated very poorly, I think that goes with the territory, and you have to get over it, get beyond it and know who you are among your peers and especially among your family when you look in the mirror.
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I'm still so young, so I feel like people have wanted to keep me in a 'no-makeup' fresh type of look - sometimes artists are a little afraid of really putting the makeup on me.
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Authenticity is very important - be true to one's self.
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The wheelchair and the prosthesis give me a soapbox to stand on. If it helps me get my message across, I'm glad; then we need to talk about what we need to do for this country.
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When I was younger, I read all the great food memoirs, by M.F.K. Fisher and Laurie Colwin and Julia Child and Nicolas Freeling and Ruth Reichl, and felt flooded with a sense of comfort and safety.
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Everybody knows they're on the Obama team: There isn't vice presidential vs. presidential division, there's not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history.
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The idea of investing in entrepreneurs who are building things from scratch, where I can participate in their dream, was very, very exciting to me.
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We live in a world where we don't really hear ideas. We just hear propaganda. That's not just boring. It's also very dangerous.
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Animals are the main victims of history, and the treatment of domesticated animals in industrial farms is perhaps the worst crime in history.
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I don't know what it is, but French men love me.
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Death is not painful. It is the most beautiful experience you will have.
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I got really excited about the idea of data-driven startup just as I was starting Kaggle.
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Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.
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My view is that, just as in many businesses, brands really matter. There will always be a role for destination sites. Eighty million users come to our destination. I think that will be the vast majority of our future business.
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I'm always looking for meaningful one-night stands.
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I love 'Troy.' I love Brad Pitt's character - when he went to Troy, he just ran over it. Then this particular scene where they made this big old horse or something out of wood, and they hid inside the wood.
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Every time there was a shiny car, my mum must have worried it was the welfare people coming for her kids. We had no idea.
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I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.
