Antoni Tapies Quotes
I feel the desire, or rather the intense need, to do something useful for society, and that is what stimulates me. In every situation I always look for what is positive and beneficial for my fellow citizens.
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Honestly speaking, I don't like my films. When I watch them, I see a lot of scope for improvement, so if I were to see any of my films, like 'Dhoom,' I might say... 'It would have been better if...' or 'had it been...' and this is all about evolving.
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I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
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The difference between Amazon and us is Amazon is more like an empire - everything they control themselves, buy and sell.
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When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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I don't see a superstar out there. I don't see Georges St-Pierre coming back.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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Cursive writing does not mean what I think it does.
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I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.
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I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.
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A lot happens in 20 years.
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If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?
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I've been doing lots of trapeze, and so much of it is holding your own weight.
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I'm a fast learner. I may not run as fast as I used to, but I think I still learn as fast.
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Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
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I think I had the most fun making a movie with 'Dedication,' just because you knew that it was a passion project for everyone involved. We had X amount of days to shoot New York in the cold. No trailers. Just sort of kind of doing it guerilla style in a way.
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I think that was the case here. We just wanted it to be good for everybody.
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Before Arthur, I'd dismissed altogether writing fiction. You only have so many semi-sharp arrows in your quiver, I'd told myself, and I was not going to be able to write a novel.
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The legislator learns that when you talk a lot, you get in trouble. You have to listen a lot to make deals.
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I'm not claiming that football is the nation's salvation in this area, but it's one of them, one little thing that apparently has captured the imagination of a large sector of our society. But when football can't be a relatively pure outlet, a fun thing, then it hurts itself.
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The extent to which all people in our society are made to count, and believe that they count, is not just a measure of decency; it makes sound economic sense.
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So you know what we have to do is stop looking for leadership from the top, because the least among us make their way into those positions of power... So what we have to do is knock off this fantasy of being citizens inside a democratic state, I mean, what we are, are the propagandized masses inside a fascist dictatorship.
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I feel the desire, or rather the intense need, to do something useful for society, and that is what stimulates me. In every situation I always look for what is positive and beneficial for my fellow citizens.
