Arnon Goldfinger Quotes
I take care to only teach courses about fiction film. I believe that this balances and broadens my documentary work.
Quotes to Explore
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How do people move on after they've lost the love of their life? It's a really interesting thing to look at. It happens to people every day: you see people... even in the worst, most war-torn places, people get up and continue with their lives. And it's a fascinating thing about human nature. That ability to just continue on.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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And I am a conservative. Sometimes conservatives forget we are supposed to conserve, to save, to be efficient. Plus our dependence on other sources of energy is causing our country to not be independent and to really be vulnerable. So this is a security issue.
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Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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Life is not about dwelling on the bad.
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It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that.
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There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.
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We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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Any talk of me engaging in a conspiracy against Pakistan is completely baseless.
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I love the idea of using film language similarly to how musicians use music - combining images and sounds in a way that they create an emotional effect.
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The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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I remember there was one summer - I think I was 13 years old - that was literally defined by watching 'Beavis and Butt-head' with my friends.
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A garden without cats, it will be generally agreed, can scarcely deserve to be called a garden at all...much of the magic of the heather beds would vanish if, as we bent over them, there was no chance that we might hear a faint rustle among the blossoms, and find ourselves staring into a pair of sleepy green eyes.
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Our minds are so undisciplined that our doubts rule our lives and we don't master our imagination - it masters us.
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A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.
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God's Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm. I love that.
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I take care to only teach courses about fiction film. I believe that this balances and broadens my documentary work.
