Ashraf Barhom Quotes
The two cultures of East and West are very different, and the priorities are very different. So when you understand that - if you are from this side or this side - when you understand that the other is different than you, and you respect these differences, you can build communication.
Quotes to Explore
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The world is always in movement.
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I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.
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I learned that despite having years and years of experience in math and computer science and so on, I didn't really know how to code until I formed a company.
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I think that it's important for every single person, no matter what they do in life, to participate in the well-being of humanity and the planet. Don't let a year go by knowing you didn't make an effort to do something - no matter how small - outside your own problems and drama.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.
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I don't like denial. I don't like repression.
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I came up with a story and I wrote it.
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My stories are Alaska stories, and they need to be told in Alaska. Evergreen Films is located in Alaska; the company does amazing work, and I am thrilled at the prospect of working together.
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I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
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Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.
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I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
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I've played a ghost, cat, snake. I've been funny, sad. I've been filmed flying on screen. So why not spend time on something else? I don't need to accept everything I'm offered.
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Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in.
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I'm a big fan of Elvis, man. I got 'Heartbreak Hotel' tattooed on my chest.
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I have an outdoor kitchen at home in Georgia, and I try to never eat inside.
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I don't think I'm better than everyone else at anything, but I am very quick at organizing a big mass of interview tape into a structure.
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Reading is exercise for our brains in the guise of pleasure. Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If they are really good, they make us believe that we are better for having read them.
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Each day I feel a little differently; some times I try to write something that's fictitious and then there's other times where I try to write something that's true.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.
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Whether fighting or spitting, my discipline is unforgiving!
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The two cultures of East and West are very different, and the priorities are very different. So when you understand that - if you are from this side or this side - when you understand that the other is different than you, and you respect these differences, you can build communication.
