Atom Egoyan Quotes
It is not as though the process of production holds any mystery for me, I know exactly what it involves and I know the predominant concern in shooting one of those things is production values - or as they would say, seeing it all up there on screen.
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The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
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Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.
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You must always do what you feel is right.
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I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
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Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.
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The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband comes home - there's something that seems really nice to me 'cause I never had that growing up. And it seems so enticing. But in my mind, I'm like, 'Well, I'll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is.'
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It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
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I'd like to work with Bjork if I could get in the studio with her. We could probably travel to a different planet, you know what I'm saying?
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So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
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I try to be this kind of player: the type who does something whenever he gets the ball. Sometimes in the past, I've gone through games where I've not touched the ball for 20 or 30 minutes.
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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
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I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.
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I consider adversity being good sometimes, you know.
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Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.
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There's a misunderstanding that I've always tried to address straight on when this question comes up, which is that a 'Half-Life' story can somehow exist outside of a game. It can't. The story is created through the process of trying to figure out how to best use the features of the engine within the interesting set of constraints it poses.
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I know real cops. When they're paired up together, they get so close, you know? There's no excuse for it, but these guys do have a connection. They fight like cats and dogs, but when they get in a really messed-up situation, they're there for each other.
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The jazz clubs wind up having only rich tourists - the kids can't come. If they do, then they spend their entire monthly allotments on a 45-minute set.
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It is not as though the process of production holds any mystery for me, I know exactly what it involves and I know the predominant concern in shooting one of those things is production values - or as they would say, seeing it all up there on screen.
