Atom Egoyan Quotes
The programme has ended, something has finished, and he has a sense of something having finished its course, and then all of a sudden he turns away and this other thing has just finished its course, this other person.
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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Having an understanding of what's possible also makes me redouble my efforts to fight those who stand in the way of doing the things that my constituents and the country would want to get done.
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For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.
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There is something fascinating about every human being. The question is how much they're willing to divulge.
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My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.
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What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.
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I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
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And unless you think there is a serious chance you're going to jail, don't listen to your lawyer.
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My wife is short, and my two kids are also small.
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I don't need anyone to look after me financially and, while it's hard to trust that a man loves you for the right reasons, you have to take a leap of faith.
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When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.
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I've always been obsessed with style and glamor and if I want anyone to get anything out of my book, it's how we can all have them in our lives.
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I'm older and wiser, but I still dream of doing new things and creating new things.
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When leaders are no longer beholden to the people who elected them, corruption results and the recruitment of extremists becomes easier.
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Mass prosperity came with the mass innovation that sprung up in 1815 in Britain, soon after in America, and later in Germany and France: It brought sustained growth to these nations - also to nations with entrepreneurs willing and able to copy the innovations.
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I'm open about having bipolar disorder. I'm open about being of mixed race. I'm open about being bisexual, and I have this wantingness to talk about it, and for me, it's about more than being a role model for any specific community.
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So, I am independently well-off and don't have to do anything, but I still do. I write books, lecture around the world, work with scientists and governments.
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I went through a really dorky phase.
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To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.
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I feel about Keaton the way an organist thinks of Bach.
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If the characters are not alive to me, it doesn't matter how good the sentences are. It just becomes all cake and no frosting.
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A Christian worldview impacts every area of life. Including making your house a home.
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The programme has ended, something has finished, and he has a sense of something having finished its course, and then all of a sudden he turns away and this other thing has just finished its course, this other person.
