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.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Walking
  • Golden
  • Gate

• 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.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • American
  • Dream
  • Myself

• 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.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Film
  • Learn
  • Possible

• Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.

  

  Ed Belfour
  • Sometimes
  • Competitive

• If my life was a song the title would be 'Naima'.

  

  Naima Adedapo
  • Life
  • Song
  • My Life

• Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Important
  • Funny
  • Food

• 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.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Men
  • Women
  • Help

• 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.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Think
  • Desire
  • Need

• 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.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Earth

• 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.

  

  Yoweri Museveni
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• 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.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Apology

• 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.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People

• 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.

  

  Duncan D. Hunter
  • Good
  • Effort

• At the end of the competition, I played the Liszt concerto and I felt my head was on the block. Well, I won.

  

  Andre Boucourechliev
  • Competition

• Because muscle is heavier than fat, dancers weigh more than you might think, but they are usually very lean.

  

  Deborah Bull

• The people of the FBI sacrifice much for their country, and I am proud to lead this organization of dedicated agents, analysts, and professional staff.

  

  James Comey
  • People
  • Country
  • Proud

• I've always been interested in exploring difficult subjects for the mainstream.

  

  Beeban Kidron

• It will be months before demand really picks up.

  

  Ed Sullivan
  • Up
  • Demand
  • Pickup

• The thought of death leaves me in perfect peace, for I have a firm conviction that our spirit is a being of indestructible nature; it works on from eternity to eternity, it is like the sun, which though it seems to set to our mortal eyes, does not really set, but shines on perpetually.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Death
  • Spirit
  • Eternity

• We want to go forward, but which way are we facing?

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Way
  • Forward

• I had never been near insane persons before in my life, and had not the faintest idea of what their actions were like.

  

  Nellie Bly
  • Life

• In the first instance, performativity must be understood not as a singular or deliberate ‘act,’ but, rather, as the reiterative and citational practice by which discourse produces the effects that it names.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Practice
  • Names
  • Performativity

• It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.

  

  Atom Egoyan