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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On the first season of our show, I commissioned a Native American artist to make up, 'cause I'm known for the tomahawk, besides the hair and the leather outfit and the whole thing.
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I am an American, not an Asian-American. My rejection of hyphenation has been called race treachery, but it is really a demand that America deliver the promises of its dream to all its citizens equally.
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I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that comics can give. It's kind of a fine line.
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Sometimes I wake up in the morning and there's nothing doing, so I decide to make something happen by lunch.
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In many ways, September feels like the busiest time of the year: The kids go back to school, work piles up after the summer's dog days, and Thanksgiving is suddenly upon us.
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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.
