Beeban Kidron Quotes
People have a right to have their lives witnessed; if we coexist with the systems that abuse people, then we have a duty to understand.
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Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.
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I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.
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Tackling affordable housing via land use planning won't necessarily solve the problem.
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When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.
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Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.
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I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.
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In all my movies, be it 'Page 3', 'Chandni Bar' or 'Corporate,' I have tried to depict honesty and reality.
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I've written everywhere - in hotel rooms, cafes, airports, and planes all around the world. Now I have a home office, and the wi-fi is really bad down there, which is great. If I make a date with myself to write from, say, 6 A.M. to 10 A.M. on a Saturday, the fact that no emails come in helps me focus.
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I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
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I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making.
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I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.
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We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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I love rock n' rollers.
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And you must dare to do as many things as you dream of.
Nastassja Kinski -
I know what it feels like to be a victim of domestic violence.
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We asked our friends and relations to lend us their children, and, because we lived in London, children loved to come and stay for their half-term holidays.
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We believe in peace in the settlement of all disputes through peaceful means, in the abolition of war, and, more particularly, nuclear war.
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I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.'
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As a writer, Chris Columbus was a big influence. 'The Goonies' was the first movie I ever saw that kids speak normally and not imagined how kids would talk. Always a big fan of Chris Columbus' dialogue and storytelling.
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Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling.
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I really fall in love with my characters, even the bad ones. I love getting together with them. They tell me what to do; they take me on a wild and wonderful trip.
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Members of organized crime continue to exploit their victims the old-fashioned way - through violence, threats and intimidation. As law enforcement has so successfully done before, we will employ our own time-tested techniques to bring them to justice to account for their crimes.
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People have a right to have their lives witnessed; if we coexist with the systems that abuse people, then we have a duty to understand.
