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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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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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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I've done well, I've been disappointed, and I think it all goes back to you. Of course the labels are going to be the labels. It's the music business. You are a business. That's what they do. So you've got to protect yourself.
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I love going to Africa and stuff. I love going anywhere, really, but I've been to Africa a bunch of times and it's just a beautiful place that needs help, obviously, but helping people that are really thankful is really easy to do. And the people out there always seem so thankful.
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Presidents seem to fall into two positive categories: they're one of us, or they're heroes. Both McCain and Obama probably see themselves as potential heroes - presidents who will be looked up to, not presidents everyday people will remark are 'just like me.'
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Comedians sometimes forget that there's an audience. You gotta be conscious that you're performing for other human beings.
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I've been playing drums since I was 7.
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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.
