Ashley Williams Quotes
I think it's such a challenge to tell a story, and I think, to be honest, the shorter, the clearer, the better.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
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I had this 'War and Peace' thing of wanting to experience war as a kind of incredible human enterprise. I even applied to Officer Candidate School. Then the practical side of me kicked in and I thought, 'I really don't want to get drafted.' So I went down to the physical and checked every psychological disorder and drug on the medical history form.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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I did a lot of things as a Muslim that I am sorry for now.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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I have been acting since I was thirteen.
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I'm not very well known. However, the more well known you get, the more people are going to have expectations of you. Although that's great, it also imposes certain pressures.
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I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.
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Kuhn was the intellectual of whom many scientists said he's 'telling it as is it is' insofar as talking about a process of 'tinkering' in terms of theory and experiment followed by radical changes. But often, what Kuhn had in mind were some very spectacular incidents in the history of the sciences that changed our way of looking at the world.
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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
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A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.
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I spent every day just praying that I didn't look like a big dork on camera.
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I never felt like I had a mother.
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Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is.
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From a population point of view, it's actually very important that as few people as possible get the flu. People getting the flu is not a private matter. The risk for healthy people is really about your friends and neighbors and fellow travelers.
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I don't know how television or radio is going to survive without newspapers because that's where they get all their news. It's going to be hopeless.
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Arresting and detaining these dangerous people can make sense, at least until a final decision is reached on their deportation. However, such detention must always be subject to time limits and court review.
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While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost.
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I am called an Islamic fundamentalist by Rushdie. My critics in Pakistan say I am a Zionist agent. I must be doing something right.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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The president has been more than willing to challenge the National Rifle Association, but that is like a Republican president standing up to labor unions - not a move that risks anything with his core supporters. Mr. Obama could show some real bravery by taking on Hollywood.
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I love the fact British men act cool whatever the situation so I'm planning to recruit there.
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I think it's such a challenge to tell a story, and I think, to be honest, the shorter, the clearer, the better.
