Atom Egoyan Quotes

I think if you look at the themes that are presented in the film, some are inherently social, and I think that any film which deals with the family is dealing with the smallest social unit in our society - and in a sense it is a question of scope.

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• It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.

  

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• I'd like to scale back the television. I'm constantly told that I'm over-exposed, and I don't want to end up like Carol Vorderman.

  

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• The virtues of the blockchain is that it would be that it's peer-to-peer settlement - no centralized settlement, no manipulation... And most importantly, there's nothing to capture. It's consensus based. It's stateless.

  

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• I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.

  

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• Artists want to be congratulated because they should be.

  

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• Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.

  

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• Early in the morning, it's super tough for me to eat right away, but I still need energy for practice. I try to start out with a protein smoothie, a green juice, or some sort of fruit.

  

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• For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, but in your essence you remain a nomad or a soldier facing a difficulty to be overcome.

  

  Cai Guo-Qiang
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• I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.

  

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• I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.

  

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• If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

  

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• It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.

  

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• When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.

  

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• A different language is a different vision of life.

  

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• I still haven't found the humor in getting hit by a cement truck. My knees still hurt when I think about it, so no jokes about that yet.

  

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• My motto is that the audience should notice the actors, not the clothes.

  

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• There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

  

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• If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying... It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.

  

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• I'ma do my thing until the day the reaper come for me. You can keep on grillin', I'ma smile back.

  

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• So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.

  

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• Moreover, there is this harm too, and one of vast extent, and touching men generally, that by insincerity and lying faith and truth are lost, which are the firmest bonds of human society, and, when they are lost, supreme confusion follows in life, so that men seem in nothing to differ from devils.

  

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• I think if you look at the themes that are presented in the film, some are inherently social, and I think that any film which deals with the family is dealing with the smallest social unit in our society - and in a sense it is a question of scope.

  

  Atom Egoyan
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