Beeban Kidron Quotes
On telly, there's been a move towards entertainment - with some very high-powered, fast-moving dramas. Then we have the Internet, where we get our information but it's all in bite-size pieces. I think the documentary, as a form, actually speaks to what's missing.
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Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.
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Let me clarify it through the national news agency that I am not joining Aam Aadmi Party. There has been reports that I will be officially joining AAP, but I can assure you that nothing of that sort is happening.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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A new untruth is better than an old truth.
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After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
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I love to beatbox and have been doing it before I even knew what it was.
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Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.
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I have been a judge for 15 years and I've made up my own mind during all that time.
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The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
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You have to recognize at some point that even though you have the passion and creative level to be able to do something, you might have to do a lot of prep. Sometimes you just can't do it as quickly as you want to do it.
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At Ozon, salaries are evaluated every year based on market benchmarks which are gender neutral.
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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While Romney has an overall deficit with women voters, his biggest disadvantage is with college educated women - wherever they work, at home, in an office, a store or a factory.
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I think, the people around home are very supportive to us.
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I don't have to go to the weight room. I don't have to go work out if I don't want to.
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I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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The ultimate end is a nation that lies under the concept of the Declaration of Indepen dence. The Declaration of Independence is such an extraordinary statement - it was designed by people skeptical of government, local or national, but in particular national.
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The projects I look for to produce or direct would not be ones in which I would want to act.
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Previously, even in Egypt, men had not learned to see straight. They fumbled in the dark, and didn't quite know where they were, or what they were. Like men in a dark room, they only felt their existence surging in the darkness of other creatures. We, however, have learned to see ourselves for what we are, as the sun sees us. The Kodak bears witness.
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We fought very hard for feminism, for women's rights. What I'm seeing today is a very opposite thing. I don't know why, but I see women being put back in their place. And I hate it. We're losing all we worked so hard for.
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Every now and again, people on the far right take a quote from a progressive out of context and use it to attack them.
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I think it is rather heroic to go into a war zone where everyone is trying to kill you, and you have no way of shooting back.
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On telly, there's been a move towards entertainment - with some very high-powered, fast-moving dramas. Then we have the Internet, where we get our information but it's all in bite-size pieces. I think the documentary, as a form, actually speaks to what's missing.
