Atom Egoyan Quotes

Once we were in the studio, we realized we were getting certain effects through the shooting of the dramatic scenes on video, shooting off a screen and then getting wave patterns and stuff like that.

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• But it is important to observe that when Europe or the United Nations impose sanctions that are supposed to be aimed against a certain regime, usually generally millions of people end up being directly punished.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • People
  • Up
  • Important

• I have written to Israel's friends around the world, including the U.S. Congress and the E.U., and asked them to make funding for the United Nations dependent on ending blatant discrimination against Israel at the U.N. Human Rights Council.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • World
  • Friends
  • Ending

• My voice is distinctive: there's a rhythm to it, and also, it's funny. I was just blessed with a funny-sounding voice.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Funny
  • Voice
  • Blessed

• I changed my name at 14 because no one outside of my family could pronounce my first name correctly.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Family
  • Name
  • Outside

• Once when I was working for the Daily News, I was summoned back to work from vacation because Donald Trump announced he was getting a divorce.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Work
  • Trump
  • Daily

• The same way that some people can play the piano, I can do plots! They just come!

  

  Francine Pascal
  • People
  • Same
  • Piano

• I shouldn't even be here, so if I'm here, I better do something good.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Good
  • Better
  • Here

• I visited the Pentagon a few days after September 11, and I still remember so vividly the smell of terror surrounding the entire building and complex. I was angry that such a brutal act of violence was committed against innocent people.

  

  Randy Forbes
  • People
  • Remember
  • Violence

• I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Language
  • Explain
  • Myth

• It's kind of an art, going out and performing. I'd like fans to remember me as a guy who would go out and entertain them, give them quality matches, and not just the same old garbage every week.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Art
  • Remember
  • Guy

• You hear certain things, negative things, all the time that aren't true, but you never hear about the positive.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Time
  • True
  • Positive

• I'm hoping they slow down a little bit with technology, because I'm just trying to keep up.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Technology

• Quanquam severa illic matrimonia

  

  Tacitus

• If one has no affection for a person or a system, one should feel free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection so long as he does not contemplate, promote, or incite violence.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Long
  • Free
  • Violence

• Isn't that sad! I'm so fragile. It's tragic laughs. Can you believe it? That's so sad.

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • Believe
  • Sad

• We never step twice into the same Auden.-HERACLITUS

  

  Randall Jarrell

• 'Now, boy, now...' he said bewilderedly, 'what is all this talk of glory? Have you caught the sickness, too? Curse me for a blind beggar, I should have seen. This fever has cankered even your simple heart, hasn’t it, Simon? I’m sorry. It takes a strong will or practiced eye to see through the glitter to the rotten core.'

  

  Tad Williams
  • Heart
  • Strong
  • Simple

• Have a healthy disregard for the impossible.

  

  Larry Page

• Man, I have so many names that everybody calls me something different. Some people call me Drew, some people call me Mayer, some people call me Haircut.

  

  Andrew Mayer Cohen
  • People
  • Different

• There are a lot of rich people in the world. There are very few people who have the privilege of getting to invent things that billions of people use.

  

  David Karp
  • People
  • World

• The problem with listening, of course, is that we don't. There's too much noise going on in our heads, so we never hear anything. The inner conversation simply never stops. It can be our voice or whatever voices we want to supply, but it's a constant racket. In the same way we don't see, and in the same way we don't feel, we don't touch, we don't taste.

  

  Philip Glass
  • Problem
  • Listening
  • Noise

• I'm not a trained dancer - I know, I know, you're shocked, I'm sure.

  

  Jessica Pare

• The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Mind
  • Attitudes
  • Regeneration

• Once we were in the studio, we realized we were getting certain effects through the shooting of the dramatic scenes on video, shooting off a screen and then getting wave patterns and stuff like that.

  

  Atom Egoyan