Atom Egoyan Quotes
It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.
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I like walking in Golden Gate Park.
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It's something you dream about, working in Scotland, working in Glasgow, walking down the same streets I used to walk down when I was a drama student, daydreaming about being in an American TV show or doing something that was well known. I guess I sort of pinch myself.
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Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.
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What I love about film is that everybody often connects to something so different, and things you couldn't anticipate when you were making the film, so you just make it as honest as possible.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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If my life was a song the title would be 'Naima'.
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Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
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I have always been an old-line Henry Clay Whig.
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I'm thrilled to partner with Gillette to help men understand what women want. If we're able to give them that information, and Gillette can give them the tools to get there, then we both win, and that's very exciting.
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I think most writers, in a sense, have this desire to disappear, to be absolutely anonymous, to be removed in some way: that comes out of the need to be a writer.
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The only problem I have with computers and television is that when all cultures on earth reach the stage we are at it will lead to a kind of homogenization.
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Some people think that being in government for a long time is a bad thing. But the more you stay, the more you learn. I am now an expert in governance.
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The agenda of burning embassies and treading on flags has its objective, of which seeking an apology for defaming our prophet is not among them at all.
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To protect the right of expression is the central part of an artist’s activity. . . . . In China many essential rights are lacking, and I wanted to remind people of this.
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I don't make a concerted effort to distinguish myself as Duncan D. Hunter versus Duncan Hunter. I just do my own thing. That's good enough for me.
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At the end of the competition, I played the Liszt concerto and I felt my head was on the block. Well, I won.
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I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
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My family is very nomadic - my mom, in particular, traveled the world as a young person, and her father before that, and I guess I have that inside me.
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Believe that none of the effort you put into coming closer to God is ever wasted - even if in the end you don't achieve what you are striving for.
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The SAT is not perfect. We all know smart, knowledgeable people who do badly on standardized tests. But neither is it useless. SAT scores do measure both specific knowledge and valuable thinking skills.
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It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.
