Anton Corbijn Quotes
With a film, you try to keep your vision in it. I think with 'The American' and 'Control' I managed to do that.
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To even get to the Olympics, I have to qualify for the 2013 World Championships and the standard is high. I know I am always going to be a few points behind the top guys.
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Western Christians have imagined that, at the end of the day, God is going to throw the present space-time universe into a trashcan and we'll be sitting on clouds playing harps. The ultimate future that we're promised is much more interesting than that. It's new heavens and a new Earth with new bodies to live in.
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Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
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If we don't end war, war will end us.
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In my opinion - in Georgia, there's a town called Lula. And Lula, Georgia, has the best peaches.
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I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds of stuff.
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I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.
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I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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Well you know it's dangerous in politics, because especially in the Philippines there's a lot of killing in politics.
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There were centuries when civilization had no theater.
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Personally, of course it's exasperating when people think you're just swanning around in Europe, going to the occasional fashion show and then being glamorous at a party.
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I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.
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Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English.
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History is full of examples of regimes that were oppressing at home and aggressive abroad, and I can't think of too many liberal democracies engaging in counterfeiting, drug running, missile proliferation, and just about any other illegal activity you can think of as North Korea does.
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Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
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Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
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Scoring a goal in a World Cup was my dream as a little girl. I didn't really dream of being in 'Maxim' when I was 5.
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Even if I see 300 'X-Files' fans together, I can't fathom - I cannot imagine - the audience itself. All I think about is the show and all I think about is why I like it and why I like to write it and why I like the characters and what I have to say through them.
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Public schools helped create the idea of America and inculcate Americans with a few rudiments of knowledge. To judge by that very American item, the Internet, a few rudiments is all anyone cares to have.
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In early 1961 a new president, John F. Kennedy, was told by military leaders and civilian officials that the Kingdom of Laos - of no conceivable strategic importance to the U.S. - required the presence of American troops and perhaps even tactical nuclear weapons. Why? Because if Laos fell, Asia would go red from Thailand to Indonesia.
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You can't be against bullying without actually doing something about it.
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With a film, you try to keep your vision in it. I think with 'The American' and 'Control' I managed to do that.
