Atom Egoyan Quotes
My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration.
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I have nothing but love in my heart and everything I say is just an instrument for laughs.
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I eat lots of vegetables and green juices.
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I have the greatest love for the rituals of organised religion - the sense of community and belonging it can confer to people. But me, I'm more a questioner than a follower; not by whim or fashion, but as a decision painfully arrived at after much, much thought.
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The World Bank can only survive if it's spending money.
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You can't tag me as a regional actress.
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Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
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It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
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Good food is healthy food. Food is supposed to sustain you so you can live better, not so you can eat more. Some people eat to live, and some people live to eat.
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I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.
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A lie to me is a dream that might come true.
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My cross earrings are a mini statement; I wear them every day! My whole dream is to be iconic, and the way you dress yourself is so important.
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Take the time today to understand your contribution to any bad event you've just been through.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.
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Blackbeard is probably the most infamous pirate who ever lived. He's one of those characters for which most of your work is done before you start.
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I guess I'm a bit of a romantic.
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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
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I would much rather be a better mother or better human being than I would be a singer. Fortunately for me singing makes me a living.
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I always say that I don't believe I'm a chef. I try to be a storyteller.
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I considered becoming a Christian... until I met one.
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My parents were all about education. My mother was a librarian - she retired after 30 years - and she made sure that we were always at museums, that we went to plays.
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You have to really believe not only in yourself; you have to believe that the world is actually worth your sacrifices.
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My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration.
