Navid Negahban Quotes
I like 'Shameless.' The first season I just watched it straight through. I literally didn't get up. I just had to finish it.
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.
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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
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We need to have Turkey respect democracy, human rights, and fundamental freedoms.
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Clothing and makeup and hair and all of that so much indicates the kind of person you are inside and the person you are presenting on the outside. Sometimes they are in conflict, and sometimes they are the same. That psychology of the exterior informing the interior is just so interesting.
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The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
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I think, for me, Julian Schnabel set a great precedent in being able to cross over so successfully. I feel like his artwork is kind of big, grand, and bombastic, yet the films that he makes are very beautifully sensitive, and I just feel that his filmmaking sensibility is very different from his artwork.
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It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.
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I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.
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I have fabulous children.
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It really is no different in the way that we make records and shoot music videos. I don't think of the movie as being a great leap out of my current profession.
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I used to conduct the last opera in Berlin on Sunday, get on a plane on Monday to Chicago, and start a rehearsal that same night, if it was a performance week.
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If I had a choice, I'd rather be admired less and have my husband tormented less. I'd prefer that people concentrate on a fair assessment of him and his Presidency.
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Judges can determine fair justice far better than any inane federal mandate.
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The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.
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I used to sail a lot in all kinds of weather, competing on small sailboats in the ocean. And I travel a lot in Iceland on horses every summer, through the wild areas where there's no inhabitants and there are volcanoes.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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We see new things all the time. We see new retroviruses out there - which is the category that HIV falls into - and we're very, very concerned because this is the part of the world where HIV jumped from chimpanzees to humans.
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Being a Baptist won't keep you from sinning, but it'll sure as hell keep you from enjoying it.
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When I was in college there was a girls' flag football league. The girls were extremely aggressive.
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Emotions aren't the obstacles to a successful negotiation; they are the means.
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One of the reasons a film about Pablo Escobar has never been made in the two-hour format is because there's too much information.
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If you will investigate all the Indian troubles, you will find that there is something wrong of this nature at the bottom of all of them, something relating to the supplies, or else a tardy and broken faith on the part of the general government.
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I like 'Shameless.' The first season I just watched it straight through. I literally didn't get up. I just had to finish it.
